All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas Carr

Burned

“The White Heart of God” by Jack Gilbert

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Paige Ledom

Out of the ordinary

The Brahmin and His Imaginary Friend

How a classic paean to the honest virtues of a Maine fisherman obscured several ugly truths

Old Christ Church in Alexandria. Virginia, attended by General Robert E. Lee in his youth and pictured here in 1911 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Wikimedia Commons)

Divided Providence

Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War

Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union by Richard Carwardine

Cudillero

“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

Sestina: Stanza 4

A Shaggy Dog Story

Calls of nature and the lewdness of squirrels

Throws Away

Mobs, manias, and Mardi Gras

Stuck on Band-Aids

Addiction by children is a phase

“Her Winsome Style”

Just Jump

Learning to Drive

Is that Gaelic I’m hearing?

Misbehaving Baldly

What’s behind the smoking ban?

A Tissue of Research

What’s with hiding toilet paper under doll dresses?

Chemosabe

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