Urges

Sometimes you control them, sometimes you can’t

For to Sound Folksy

What do we know about this odd, antiquated construction?

Following Combat and Civilian Traumas

Now called post-traumatic stress disorder, ‘shell shock’ is still with us

Bops and Dadgums

Lanyards

How many things do you really need dangling from your neck?

As an Aside (Webcomic #8)

On processing parentheticals

Selfie Defense

Photos have value beyond expressions of self-adoration

“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

Casa Gorín

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut

The Writer in the Family

The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero

Birthday Boy

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

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