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Carolynn Kingyens

Now imagine a naive girl who hasn’t learned respect for the weighty-word — never, who uses it too…

— from “The Weight of Words,” Before The Big Bang Makes A Sound

Mar 23

Now imagine a naive girl
who hasn’t learned respect
for the weighty-word — never,
who uses it too…

Mar 23

From poem “No One Is Immune,” from debut, Before The Big Bang Makes A Sound

Feb 22

From poem “No One Is Immune,” from debut, Before The Big Bang Makes A Sound

Feb 22

FAMISHED: Confessions From A Decades-Long Binge-Eater

You grow soft in the body but hard in the face. You and I know it should be the other way — hard in the body, soft in the face. — from my…

Feb 2

FAMISHED: Confessions From A Decades-Long Binge-Eater

Feb 2

Teresa Giudice: How Bravo’s Real Housewives Destroyed a Family

One of my guilty pleasures in life has been watching Bravo’s Real Housewives of New Jersey, known for its simple acronym — RHONJ. I’ve…

Dec 22, 2024

Teresa Giudice: How Bravo’s Real Housewives Destroyed a Family

Dec 22, 2024

The Six Films That Made Me Tear-Up, Ugly-Cry, and Downright Sob

Rocky III, Terms of Endearment, Steel Magnolias, The Passion of the Christ, The Help, and The Whale

Nov 30, 2024

The Six Films That Made Me Tear-Up, Ugly-Cry, and Downright Sob

Nov 30, 2024

Coupling

I listened to you retell it to our new friends from our new church, the story of how we first met.

Oct 20, 2024

Coupling

Oct 20, 2024

Break the Mirror in Your Youth

I used to go without a bra once, too: breasts — smooth and shiny as two eggplants under a tank top, under the umbrella — all the boys’…

Oct 20, 2024

Break the Mirror in Your Youth

Oct 20, 2024

This short story was first published by Across the Margin, a Brooklyn arts & culture webzine and…

Attachment Theory

Sep 23, 2024

This short story was first published by Across the Margin, a Brooklyn arts & culture webzine and…

Sep 23, 2024

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My Twenty-Five Year Experience with Supraventricular Tachycardia

“You’ve ever seen a human heart? It looks like a fist wrapped in blood!” — Larry, from the film Closer

Aug 1, 2024

My Twenty-Five Year Experience with Supraventricular Tachycardia

Aug 1, 2024

How Avid Music Listening Taught Me the Fundamentals of Poetry

Think of music being the soundtrack to your writing.

Jul 26, 2024

How Avid Music Listening Taught Me the Fundamentals of Poetry

Jul 26, 2024

Carolynn Kingyens

Carolynn Kingyens

Wife, Mommy, and author of Before the Big Bang Makes a Sound and Coupling; available on Amazon, McNally Jackson, Book Culture, Barnes & Noble.

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