
The story, fragmented by a combination of white space and fleur-de-lis, is a sequential chronicling of one woman’s joy juxtaposed alongside her need to survive.
“Kristina Moriconi creates a form—the lyrical primer, let’s call it—wholly necessary to her subject—a true creative achievement.”
– LIA PURPURA, Author of On Looking and All the Fierce Tethers
The story, fragmented by a combination of white space and fleur-de-lis, is a sequential chronicling of one woman’s joy juxtaposed alongside her need to survive.
“Kristina Moriconi creates a form—the lyrical primer, let’s call it—wholly necessary to her subject—a true creative achievement.”
– LIA PURPURA, Author of On Looking and All the Fierce Tethers
From 2014 Montco Poet Laureate, and author of No Such Place comes a new lyric narrative- In the Cloakroom of Proper Musings
More from Kristina Moriconi
Read Kristina’s essay “Stalemate” in the new anthology
Flash Non-fiction Food, 91 Very Delicious, Very True Short Stories
Fresh off the success of Flash Nonfiction Funny comes a piping-hot new take on the flash genre: Food. Working within a 750-word limit, each of these nonfiction pieces is driven by a hunger for something filling. Memories of an ill-fated birthday cake, contemplations on a family recipe, an embarrassing sauce spill on a first date-all of it true, all of it tasty.
“I learned—and I learned well—how to tame the hunger in my belly. To fall asleep listening to the grumble.” – Kristina Moriconi from “Stalemate”
The story, fragmented by a combination of white space and fleur-de-lis, is a sequential chronicling of one woman’s joy juxtaposed alongside her need to survive.

Kristina Moriconi creates a form—the lyrical primer, let’s call it—wholly necessary to her subject—a true creative achievement.
– LIA PURPURA, Author of On Looking and All the Fierce Tethers

Visual Arts
Altering texts to create my own found & blackout prose & poetry began when I discovered a book in a used bookstore on the Upper West Side. It was a terribly misogynistic novel titled Harry, the Rat with Women. I wondered how it ever got published & how it was still around decades later.
So, I bought it, intending to turn it into something else.