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trends
media debate • books • movies

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Moving Through a Country Is Never Done Quickly

Hybrid Poetry by Sue Landers

the priests—told the neighbors not—to sell their houses—told the white neighbors—not to sell their houses to black people—that to do so would be a beginning of an end

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

“Temple of Baal, Starry Sky” © Saïd Nuseibeh; used by permission
Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad: Two Poems

TW Featured Poetry

Climb until every pixel
 of the sky’s bloom falls directly into your view.

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craft
advice • teaching • interviews

Nicole Simonsen on Writing

Interview by Kelcey Parker

My teachers would cross off whole sentences, combine sentences, rearrange paragraphs; it was like butchery.

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stories
fiction • memoir • writer's life

"Stark County Fair, Ohio" © shadow planet; Creative Commons license
Fair

Flash Nonfiction by Kathryn Gahl

It’s an odd suggestion, but I go, leaden and lost in the dust of the midway.

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

"African Tree" © Marvin Foushee; Creative Commons license
The Djinn of Madialy

Hybrid Poetry by Susan Terris

A farmer named Amadou took him into a millet field to see a tree that was possessed.

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

"Conques" © stephrox; Creative Commons license
Pilgrim, Mother

Essay by Elisabeth Hedrick-Moser

Every walk I took with my daughter, the world opened before me as if newly created.

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