Joshua Stern : Writing

The Could-Haves

The Could-Haves

A Poem by Joshua Stern


Read the obituaries if you haven’t lately: A Broadway actress who would have stormed stages up the ladder to fame, won two To..
The Metaphysical

The Metaphysical

A Poem by Joshua Stern


She’s slightly obsessed with the metaphysical. We sit under a tree by the lake one night. Do you ever think, she says..
A Mindset

A Mindset

A Poem by Joshua Stern


is very much like a page in a novel-- it is your surroundings at any given moment: it is the atmospheric conditions that envelop..
Tribute

Tribute

A Poem by Joshua Stern


To Owen: Sometimes the pen inside me stirs up memories of words and friends and rooms and tears and things said, and things left unsaid--..
Barriers

Barriers

A Story by Joshua Stern


When I was hired as an English teacher at Elphick High School just a few weeks after I graduated from college, I wasn’t quite sure what to ma..
Thoughts Expressed to My Creative Writing Professor, Fall 2014

Thoughts Expressed to My Creative Writing Professo..

A Poem by Joshua Stern


I I must admit... there have been times, in this class, when the emphasis you have placed on the importance --the necessity-- ..
Conversations in a Random Coffee Shop

Conversations in a Random Coffee Shop

A Story by Joshua Stern


She told me so many things over the course of those few weeks, at that table by the window where I would so often find her sitting alone. So many t..
The Bearer of Bad News

The Bearer of Bad News

A Story by Joshua Stern


I can’t be the bearer of bad news. I just can’t bring myself to do it. Even the thought of it just...destroys me. It’s the e..
The Desire to Connect (or, "An Ode to My College Orientation Leader")

The Desire to Connect (or, "An Ode to My College O..

A Poem by Joshua Stern


Not too long ago, I learned to think of my life in terms of the people who are in it, and the times I share with them. I began to see ever..
Thank-You Notes

Thank-You Notes

A Poem by Joshua Stern


I know this might make me sound insensitive-- but I would like to express my belief that thank-you notes are overrated. My mother told..

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