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media debate • books • movies

Great Writers and Bad Teaching

Feature by Michael Milburn

Maybe the best measure of my education is the fact that I have kept on writing.

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

“NYC Sunset” © Drew Tarvin; Creative Commons license
Why I Need You to Watch the Sunset

Poem by Jill Bronfman

The ancients believed those who witness these colors would live forever.

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advice • teaching • interviews

"Windermere Morning" © Richard Walker; Creative Commons license
How I Learned to Love the Void

Theme Essay by Marlene Adelstein

It felt like being on a ledge, with vast emptiness below my feet. I wasn't writing—but I wasn't not writing.

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fiction • memoir • writer's life

Giving Stephen King Another Chance

Theme Essay by Wendy Glaas

His work has entered my psyche thoroughly, like tentacles from his nightmarish creations.

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Giavanna Munafo: Two Poems

TW Featured Poet

as fluke snowfall becomes/run-off, fallout surging/through pipes,/the house animate/with change.

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from adoption to writerly sins...

A Taste of Lechón

Personal Essay by J.p. Lawrence

The fifteen-year-old American boy is an unrepentant omnivore.

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