Where’d You Get Your Information From, Huh?
by Joshua Edwards William Langland is old school. He’s Medieval. About seven years ago I read the 7500 line “B-Text” version of his masterpiece, Piers Plowman. I remember very little about it besides...
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by Ann Marie Thornburg Living away from home for a while can render our recollections of that place’s familiar images freshly powerful and strange. Sometimes the juxtaposition of here (one’s...
View ArticleThe Poetry of Kindness
by Ann Marie Thornburg Recently, I had the pleasure of listening to and spending a little time with the writer and teacher Naomi Shihab Nye. I learned of her open-hearted work years ago, when I was...
View ArticleKismet, Blueprints, & Secret Tattoos: Catching Up with Essayist Aisha...
by Claire Skinner For each essay, I would set myself up as though I were allowed to make a collage using last Wednesday's newspaper, a 1996 issue of Art Forum, and the notes I took while on layover at...
View ArticleWarsaw Dispatch: Where Benches Play Chopin
* Ashley David * To travel in linguistic isolation is not to live between cultures but to live in parallel to the current culture as an observer and sometimes a participant whose actions are determined...
View ArticleGlints & Glimmers: Notes on Daily Inspiration
* Nania Lee * What keeps you going? In the past, I’ve found traveling abroad re-energizes my writing and provides a renewed sense of motivation to create. In recent years, I’ve had so many...
View ArticleThe Real Peterman: Poetics and Persona
* Gina Balibrera * "He who wears this burgundy velvet vest possesses an energy that cannot be adequately described in words. Photography, yes, for sure. And when you study it, this photograph of your...
View ArticleUnfathomable Jerusalem
* Kevin Haworth * I live each summer in Tel Aviv, the young city, much younger than both San Francisco and New Orleans. But I dabble in Jerusalem.
View ArticleHome Visits
Many of my friends live all across the continent from me, in San Francisco, in Cambridge, in New York and Philadelphia. They live in places that are built for visitors, with landmarks and historical...
View ArticleA Postcard from Paris
Traveling around Europe in the midst of all this, conducting dissertation research on the Czech interwar avant-garde and its relationship to other major artistic centers of that period, I could not but...
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