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media debate • books • movies

"Bike Path, Chappaquiddick" (paper and glue on window glass) © Kim Triedman; used by permission
Some Failed Nocturnes for Sylvia Plath

Hybrid Poetry by Marie Chambers

Verbs begin to spiral from her mouth and coil outward into the sky.

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

All Creatures

Image Essay by Mary Dineen

A photographer from Italy once wrote to me, 'Flowers should elect you their queen.'

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craft
advice • teaching • interviews

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Happy Twentieth Birthday, "Bird by Bird"

Tribute Essay by Kathy Curto

My paperback copy, first purchased in 2004, is tattered and coffee-stained with faded Post-it Notes.

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stories
fiction • memoir • writer's life

“Tree-Climber” © Jonathan Lidbeck; Creative Commons license
The Bones of Oak

Essay by Marie Alfonsi

I wonder if all living things need a self-portrait.

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

“Plants (OR 39-1, Cougar Lake)” © Keith Moul
Nicole Callihan: Prose Poem

TW Poetry Spotlight

This is not a story in your mind. You were really that girl. She was already you.

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

Jennifer Egan: “I Needed to Let Go of Chronology”

TW Interview by Karen J. Ohlson

The gamble was whether this…combustion would happen, of all the chapters together.

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