Sweet is a complex and wonderful entity. Imagine a sky lantern made of spun sugar, painted with chocolate and glazed by a blood orange reduction, then sent aloft by the heat of one of those never-goes-out birthday candles. It's like that.

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. We, at Sweet, want to include others in this conversation.

We like poetry like we like chocolate. We like creative nonfiction like we like marshmallows and graham crackers. Both are great separately and together. Sweet wants to cater to the chocolate aficionados and those who like their s'mores good and gooey.

• What We Like
• Raspberry-filled chocolates (love of language)
• Lemon sour balls (humor that's trying to do more than just be funny)
• Cinnamon disks (gender and sexuality)
• Peanut butter cups (prose poems, lyric essays, the whatchamacallit)
• Tunnel of fudge cake (excess, excess, excess)
• Vanilla ice cream (spare but good)
• Tiramisu (metaphors and similes)
• Sticky rice and mango (racial and cultural diversity)

• What We Don't
• Sugar-flavored sugar drops made with high-fructose corn syrup (clichés)
• Anchovy sour balls (racism and sexism)
• Candied cherries with "maple" syrup (sappy love poems)
• Un-gummy worms, still moving (undigested experience)
• Ice cream flambé (melodrama)
• Unsweetened baker's chocolate (porn)

If this sounds similar to your own list of do & don't likes, you should consider submitting some of your writing to us!