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trends
media debate • books • movies

What Should We Do About Wikipedia?

Feature by Martha Nichols and Lorraine Berry

There’s good reason not to trust an information source that can erase its own mistakes as if they never happened.

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

© Shamus Langlois
My Son Is My Sun

Image Essay by Shamus Langlois

I've been taking photographs of my son both to celebrate him and to remember the fleeting moments that parenting offers.

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craft
advice • teaching • interviews

What Writing Program Critics Don’t Know

Theme Essay by Theresa Williams

They think people are either born to be writers or they’re not.

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stories
fiction • memoir • writer's life

“Tu n'es pas un Intellectuel” © Piotr Szymon Mańczak; used by permission
Source Material

Essay by Steve Henn

Perhaps the fact of her mother’s death was real to her, as real as it could get, whether or not she ever saw the body.

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

“Slightly Less Relaxing Chair” © Saspotato; Creative Commons license
Frasier 2099

Poem by Shaw Patton

It’s been so long that laugh tracks seem fresh again.

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

Green Among the Bones

Theme Essay by Marc Schiffman

The land seemed tortured, as if the vegetation had been slashed and burned.

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