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media debate • books • movies

Thank You, Apple, for Going to Court Over E-Books

TW Opinion by David Biddle and Martha Nichols

These days, every writer and reader needs to pay careful attention to the profit-making shenanigans of the publishing world.

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

"African Tree" © Marvin Foushee; Creative Commons license
The Djinn of Madialy

Hybrid Poetry by Susan Terris

A farmer named Amadou took him into a millet field to see a tree that was possessed.

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craft
advice • teaching • interviews

Detail from With Robert Lowell and His Circle
Kathleen Spivack: Shaping What You Write

TW Interview by Jennifer Jean

You really have to swim down into yourself when you’re writing, which is why people confuse it all with mental illness.

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stories
fiction • memoir • writer's life

"Rosarios" © Luis Roberto Lainez
Three Visits to His Abuelita

Essay by Patricia Dubrava

She looked dismayed. Maybe she’d never seen such a reaction to one of her cures.

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

Jane Hicks (detail; photo credit: Lisa Parker)
Jane Hicks: “I’m a Teacher at Heart”

TW Interview by Denton Loving

I want to inform students that history didn’t happen in a vacuum and is not confined to events in history books.

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

A Poet in the Biosphere

Theme Essay by Kathryn Winograd

Last night I slept beneath the wings of Noctuidae.

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