The Powerless I

Can pronouns carry social meaning?

When Bats Collide

… with wind turbines

Self-Justification

Teachers and universities should focus on their students, not on themselves

What I Learned and How I Learned It

The Theater of Clothing

Lessons learned from the way we dress

The Search for Meaning in Sound

On kerfuffles and hullabaloos and rethinking iconicity

If the Shoes Fit …

Footwear consumerism conflicts with environmental concerns

A Question of Worth

Helping students see beyond the classroom

My Best Advice

Strings Attached

“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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