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media debate • books • movies

Yes, I love Thompson the writer—but, Christ, his followers!

why I write • faith • visual art

Not one creature gazes out toward me, solitary observer.

advice • teaching • interviews

The currency of movements—passion, spirit, creativity, the willingness to spend our bodies—is the only alternative.

fiction • memoir • writer's life

On November 20, 2011, I became the first person in my family to walk Brzeziny’s slanting, potholed streets in nearly seventy years.

featured poets • poetry spotlights

faster & faster until I lift up, break/into flight – Wind, no questions, no desires

from adoption to writerly sins...

Kids take and take and take, and they may as well give back. Writing about them is a painless way for them to do it.