Illness

I’m Never Weeding

Oct 31, 2022

Essay by John Jacobson

Love, joy, loss, and grief are all flowers on the same vine.

Memoir, Grief, Illness | Read More

Author Talk: Sarah Fay

Oct 17, 2022

Podcast Interview with Martha Nichols

A conversation about Fay's "Pathological" memoir and mental-health misdiagnoses (yes, plural).

TW Podcast, Illness, About Memoir | Read More

On Touch

Jul 11, 2022

Poetry by José Angel Araguz

Touching, letting go, returning to touch: we love with the persistence of flies!

Poems, Grief, Illness | Read More

An Indian Summer Like No Other

Oct 18, 2021

Essay by Srijani Ganguly

Others might get sick, be hospitalized, or even die, but no one we know will really be affected by it.

Memoir, Illness, Coming Out of the Rabbit Hole | Read More

Crazy Quilt

Mar 30, 2021

Poetry by Madeleine Mysko

To make something from the desires both to hold and to be held.

Featured Poetry, Illness, Creative Fire | Read More

Corona Archive #3: Day

Dec 14, 2020

Poetry by Sheila Black

I wonder about the half-advertent suicides. About a person who writes about a wing in the sky.

Featured Poetry, TW at Ten, Illness | Read More

Alchemy of the Mind

Oct 05, 2020

Comic by James Notarianni

I know we don't sound like you.

Cartoons, Illness, Into Sanity | Read More

Bibliotherapy: Writing About Trauma

Jun 15, 2020

Interview Feature by Cristina Deptula

We, as humans, need to be around others who have felt what we’re feeling.

Q&A, Memoir, Illness | Read More

Perceived Threats

May 04, 2020

Pen-and-Ink Feature by Darrell Urban Black

The words I find most comforting during the pandemic are words of unity.

Graphic Arts, Illness, Truth-telling | Read More

Return to New York

May 04, 2020

Report by Keith Langston

The feeling of being protected, of being immune, and of being separate vanished.

Illness, Travel, Transitions | Read More

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