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drawings of school supplies and other school-related items

Back to School

Guest post by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Dear Reader, As I type this, I can see that the usually quiet streets of my small town are now full and crowded by trucks with mattresses tied to the roofs, the various construction vehicles that peppered campus are slowly disappearing, and our big-box store is filled with harried parents…

strawberry pie with two halves of a fresh strawberry next to it

The Pie Plate: Serving up a Slice of Travel through the Haibun Poetic Form

Guest post by Aimee Nezhukumatathil   Dear Reader, I am covered in ice and snow for most of the year. But summers here in Western New York mean a bevy of fresh fruit from any of the local cherry orchards, blueberry fields, or strawberry patches. I live within five miles from several farms that allow…

the word "BLOGGING" written in a white chalk–like style against a dark green background

My Meta Blog

Guest post by Bridget Lowe I still remember the first blog I ever saw–it must have been 2000 or so, and my friend Adam had created a place online for his hilarious interpretations of interracial buddy films of the 1980s and ’90s. I was completely enthralled and mystified by this external, widely accessible version of…

Jorge Luis Borges, Eudora Welty, and William Faulkner

Literary Conversations

Guest post by Carol Keeley It began, like most obsessions, in a used bookstore on Broadway. Late one afternoon, I was listlessly foraging for food and stopped to browse pre-loved books in my old Chicago neighborhood. I venture to say that most people most of the time experience the same four-o’clock-in-the-afternoon devaluation. [But] if such…