Feb 07, 2014
Luisa Muradyan
Can you tell which shopping center is actually in Wyoming? Neither can we.Back in Cheyenne, Wyoming, another patient at my chiropractor's said he recalled when Dell Range Boulevard, one of Cheyenne's busiest thoroughfares, was barely more than a dirt… 
Jan 28, 2014
Layla Benitez-James
As I have become increasingly obsessed with literary translation, I was surprised a few months ago to realize I had never tried to read a Saunders story in Spanish...
Jan 21, 2014
Steve Sanders
I can't speak for all writers, but...[I] feel a kinship with Phil when he observes early in the film, "What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was the same and nothing you did mattered?"
Jan 17, 2014
Yerra Sugarman
If Dvorak wove the plaintive melodies of his homeland into his modernist music, and T. S. Eliot incorporated the speech of Cockneys in experimental poems, Celia Dropkin used Yiddish lullabies and children's rhymes to set a certain folk innocence and experience beside her modernist concerns with the experiences of a woman's body...
Jan 14, 2014
Elizabeth Lyons
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When I was a sophomore in college, I drove from Charleston to Columbia, SC to spend the day with my parents at the local zoo. I couldn't tell you all of the exhibits we saw, or if the Siberian tigers were stalking back and forth in their exhibit or…
Jan 10, 2014
Chelsea Shannon
In 2004, art historian Hal Foster coined the phrase "archival impulse" to describe artistic practices that create idiosyncratic archives of particular moments, people, or places in modern history1. For Foster, this trend marks a shift from the predominant…
Jan 07, 2014
Dino Piacentini
I am writing this on New Year's Day. Inevitably, the mind turns towards resolutions. Read more. Run more. And, of course, write more. My mother was an enthusiastic resolution drafter. She would make a detailed list--walk one mile per day, read Bible ten…
Jan 03, 2014
Kay Cosgrove
At this time of year, reflection and resolution feel as essential as scarves and hats, as prevalent and popular.
"Scarf, hat, reflection, in that order?" For the writer, reflection, resolution, and seasonal accessories are a staple of any month of the…
Dec 30, 2013
Patrick Clement James
A recent Internet meme has Facebook users posting a list of books that they find personally influential. Here's my list: 1. The Berenstain Bears
2. Little Women
3. Leaves of Grass
4. What the Living Do
5. Brideshead Revisited
6. The Color Purple
7. Thomas…
Dec 19, 2013
Justin Chrestman
Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" was published in full 170 years ago this last December 18th. I'd forgotten a few of the less familiar aspects of the work. For example, Scrooge's journey with the ghost of Christmas Present to a lighthouse and a ship…