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the weapons in our lives

In times of trauma, tragedy, and unrest art becomes even more important. Creativity allows us to cope with and make sense of that which often..

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Shaping a Memoir from Essays

Back in the mid-eighties, I read Tama Janowitz’s Slaves of New York — a novel in stories. As a novice fiction writer, a novel-in-stories seemed..

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Salaam Shalom

As a religious and cultural minority, the aftermath of the recent election had left me feeling vulnerable and very much alone. The waves of anti-Semitic..

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Essay

Wandering, Writing, and a Return

It was the first (and only) class I didn’t try to skip. My teacher’s name was Larry and he had freckles and short spokes of..

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The Root of the Writing

Sharon & David Mathews are a mother and son duo from Chicago. The pair recently started co-writing poetry and recently published their first poems. They..

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Individual Education Plan

From The Québec Ministry of Education: “The purpose of the IEP is to help a student … because of a handicap or difficulties … progress..

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Bitch Niggas: In Support of Softness

When men write about sexism they get praised to high heavens for it, although women have been talking about it, writing about it, making art..

Interview

Interview with Karen Babine

Karen Babine—author of Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life (University of Minnesota, 2015), winner of the 2016 Minnesota Book..