Travel

Seasonal

May 02, 2022

Poetry by Khalil Elayan

Wood smoke is pervasive and copies my paved serpent, creating barriers among brothers.

Poems, Distraction, Travel | 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

The Weight of Departure

Sep 30, 2019

Essay by Eric Stinton

I could move in any direction or be motionless, disconnected from everything—my life back in Korea, my plans to move home.

Illness, Travel, Transitions | Read More

My Heart Will Go On

Sep 30, 2019

Essay by Hillary Moses Mohaupt

I turned to the only francophone music I could find in northern Illinois: the early Canadian albums of Céline Dion.

Music, Travel, Transitions | Read More

Invisible Gardener

Sep 30, 2019

Essay by Valerie Bacharach

I don’t know why I think of her now, standing at the cliff’s edge, nothing before me but water.

Grief, Travel, Politics of Place | Read More

Escape from Berlin

Nov 12, 2018

Essay by Jill Bronfman

I felt an overwhelming urge to get the hell out.

Travel, Journalism, Politics of Place | Read More

Khomeini’s Mausoleum

Oct 01, 2018

Essay by Mojgan Ghazirad

I felt as if I were standing under a giant tent erected on top of a jewelry box that bore the Ayatollah’s body.

Memoir, Travel, Politics of Place | Read More

Pilgrim, Mother

Jan 29, 2018

Essay by Elisabeth Hedrick-Moser

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

Writing and Faith, Family Stories, Travel | Read More

Giavanna Munafo: Poem

Apr 18, 2016

TW Poetry Spotlight

Here, in twos and threes, friends cross the piazza

Math Poetry, Travel | Read More

What I’ve Come So Far to Tell Them

Jan 25, 2016

Theme Essay by Robin McCarthy

I understood the blank stares and raw anguish when I asked those students about their homes.

Teaching, Travel | Read More

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