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media debate • books • movies

A Feminist Invades the Halls of Phallocracy

"My Favorite Critic" by Emily Toth

Carolyn Heilbrun once observed that James Joyce was 'a world class shit.'

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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

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

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craft
advice • teaching • interviews

Jen Cross
Author Talk: Jen Cross

Video Interview by Elizabeth McShane

Many sexual trauma survivors find themselves living a messy reality.

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stories
fiction • memoir • writer's life

“Boy and Girl Hummel Figurines” © Jason Pratt; Creative Commons license
Humble Figurines

Essay by Elizabeth Bales Frank

Better to live alone than with this kind of emotional wreckage, I counseled myself.

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

Howie Good: Two Poems

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our bodies twisting together,/a kind of thunderstorm blue

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

Channeling Capote's "In Cold Blood"

Theme Essay by Mali Sastri

There I see, not only reflected but clarified and articulated in ways I hadn’t imagined possible, the inside of myself.

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