Sweet: A Literary Confection
In 2002 Katherine Riegel and Ira Sukrungruang got married in Chiang Mai, Thailand, at one of the oldest temples in the country. (You should have seen them; they were beautiful). The marriage of Katie and Ira was also a marriage of cultures, a marriage of landscapes, a marriage of genres: poetry and creative nonfiction.

So began an ongoing conversation about the two genres, where they intersect, diverge, and mix to create a frothy blend. Sweet is an online literary magazine that publishes poetry, creative nonfiction, and anything that blurs the lines of those two genres. Sweet likes work that lingers in the mouth like an English toffee, work that is challenging and complex like the dark center of a tootsie pop, and work that satisfies like silky-smooth, Belgian chocolate.


The Clever Title
The Clever Title devours books like a malnourished medieval beast. The Clever Title is not concerned with craft or criticism. It cares not about literary elitism or academic jargon. The Clever Title reads because it knows there are mysteries of the underworld left to discover. The Clever Title loves the written word the way children love their ragged blankies. The Clever Title relishes those moments cuddled on the couch, sitting under the oak on campus, sipping a cappuccino in a cafe, the bent spine of a book in hand. The Clever Title reads to understand and discover humanity, the self, the natural world, and the mysteries that lie beneath the couch cushions.

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