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What World

Nicholas Reiner

1 min read

Here, Now

Scenes from a Bookstore

Rebecca D. Martin

7 min read

Something More, Something Beautiful

A review of Jake Meador's In Search of the Common Good

John Thomas

7 min read

Road Trip

Kayla Krut

1 min read

Surrendering a Shoebox

How I learned to support the foster families my family could never become.

Abby Perry

6 min read

Is This Something I Want to Hear?

Reconciling my writer-self with my daughter-self—or at least trying to

Megan Sandberg

8 min read

Myth and Opportunity

Phillip Aijan

2 min read

A Story She Needs to Know

What happened complicates the stories we like to tell about ourselves

John B. Graeber

7 min read

"Like Lilith Fair, minus the angst"

What Broad City gets right about female friendship

Sarah Schwartz

6 min read

Kingdom

Corinna McClanahan Schroeder

1 min read

Pokémon Made Me a Writer

Through fiction, I recognized the truths of being an immigrant child.

Rinoa Ko

7 min read

Rewind: VHS Tapes, Imperfect Memory, and Hope

We yearn for our stories to be remembered.

Blake Collier

9 min read

After the Fourth

Dealing with the 4th, and its aftermath [from the archive]

Laura Tokie

5 min read

America

A poem for the 4th of July

Walt Whitman

1 min read

The Art of Drinking Tea

A 3rd-of-July story from our archive

L.L. Barkat

5 min read

Lazarus

A poem from the archive for the week of the 4th of July

Timothy E.G. Bartel

1 min read

Explosions and BBQ

A piece from the archive. A piece for all time.

Nathan Klose

3 min read

The Debt

This is the debt I pay...

Paul Laurence Dunbar

1 min read

Release, then Initiation

Recovering Truth in Wise Blood and Titanic Rising

Richard Kingham

8 min read

Ambition

“You’re too ambitious for a woman,” he said. / I ignored him.

Santa-Victoria Pérez

6 min read

[From the Archives] PLAYA DE LOS COCOS

Aaron Belz

1 min read

Subject to Revision

Your knowledge of cultural references, boys, won’t save you. Look outward.

Chris Davidson

9 min read

On Monsieur's Departure

I love and yet am forced to seem to hate

Queen Elizabeth

1 min read

My Brief Life Selling to Churches

No one talks to a stranger without a reason.

Joseph Lyons

8 min read

[From the Archives:] I Know What You Read Last Summer

The story of this horse. People love horses. Roughly centered on horses.

Adam Joyce

7 min read

from The Book of Sir Thomas More, Act 2, Scene 4

A poem

William Shakespeare

3 min read

Tossers

I feel a sudden rush of triumph, like I have witnessed something noteworthy—even if I am the only one scribbling notes.

Paul Buchanan

8 min read

The Hand that Feeds You

Tommy Welty

1 min read

"Only Connect"

On re-reading (and being summoned back to life by) Denise Levertov's "Caedmon"

Jolene Nolte

8 min read

[Re-post:] In Defense of War Poetry

As long as there are wars, there should be war poetry, poetry that introduces complex responses into the public debate about the significance of war.

Brett Beasley

8 min read

Foreclosure

It is this sense of being watched / or it is You that calls us to responsibility.

Collier Nogues

1 min read

Of Course, You Sell The Shirt

I guess that’s love, isn’t it?

John B. Graeber

4 min read

The Spectacular Defeat of Christo’s “Over the River”

Jeanne-Claude and Christo may have felt Over the River would succeed easily, given their careful, years-long planning. They were wrong.

Liz Charlotte Grant

16 min read

Vincent

Tony Magistrale

1 min read

Marianne Moore and the Vulnerability of Perception

On "To a Snail"

Chris Davidson

5 min read

What Remains

Paul Willis

1 min read

Same Story, Different Lens?

The one line from the new Wrinkle In Time that won’t stop bugging me

Lauren Bentley

7 min read

The Work and the Life

Chris Davidson

3 min read

After Matisse's "The Dessert: Harmony in Red"

She cannot escape / the color of passion.

Alea Peister

1 min read

Counterfactuals and Taming of the Shrew

Our algorithms, like art, inherit the bias of their creators. Counterfactuals offer a route to self-awareness for both scientists and artists.

Rachel Lynne Wilkerson

6 min read

On Poetry and Noticing

Observation offers the poet freedom from their own stories, experiences and regimens. When noticing, the world’s natural appeal illuminates the poet’s mind with such a fever that the writing never stops.

Ashley Brimmage

3 min read

75 North

Wynn Everett

1 min read

Pushing the Continuum: A Review of The Gospel Comes with a House Key by Rosaria Butterfield

Geoffrey Sheehy

6 min read

DELTA 24: THE TRAIN STATION IN BROD NOW HOUSES A FAMILY OF SEVEN

Write the word “teeth” where the smile once was. In the last seven seconds you have lied to yourself seven times.

David Koehn

4 min read

Use & Intention

A few follow-up words about Desert X

Chris Davidson

8 min read

Fog

thinking of Mew and Eliot

Laura Lee Washburn

1 min read

There’s a New Door to Narnia, and the Children Want In

No Narnia book requires another story, yet no Narnia book excludes another, either. Lewis always left the door open, seemingly so he could invent another excuse for himself to enter.

Geoffrey Sheehy

6 min read

Being and Nothingness at Desert X

Traveling through the California desert, looking for what's real.

Brent Everett Dickinson

8 min read

Benediction

Lin Nelson Benedek

1 min read

Wheels

“I am what is known as a fifth wheel,” the narrator confesses, “a useless piece of paraphernalia carried along as a necessary impedimenta on other people’s journeys.”

Paul Buchanan

2 min read

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