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An Evening with Dorothy Day

4.2, Essay by Donez Xiques

I have met a truly liberated woman. Not Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, or Shirley Chisolm, but Dorothy Day, a woman of seventy plus, whose freedom is not put on delicately like perfume as one leaves the house, but rather authentically …

Some Words on the Lives and Lines of Jimmy Carter

20.1/2, Essay by Miller Williams

A poet in a crowd of poets, I first met Jimmy Carter at the White House in 1980. Too short a time after that Tom T. Hall, an old friend, asked Jim Whitehead and me if we would meet him …

It’s Making You Happy

Essay by Emily Vizzo

Yesterday I stood in line with two books, waiting for a poet I love to sign them. While I waited, the photographer who had been roving the event paused about five feet away and began taking my picture. Confused, I …

Scholarship Beyond “Words, Words, Words”: Shakespeare’s Material World

Essay by Sheila T Cavanagh

In September 2015, I found myself confronted with the dead body of a rabbit. Its guts had been removed, but the rest of its preparation was up to me. Despite decades of pescatarianism, I gingerly wielded the cleaver, separating the …

The Cartographer’s Assistant

Essay by Kelle Groom

I’ve never had a sense of direction. Each new place appears like an island. There’s a seahorse of memory and navigation tucked in the brain’s bed. But, for me, north is straight up in the sky and a cold climate. …

Why Do We Imagine A Future Without Bookshelves?

Essay by Lydia Pyne

There are rumors that the printed book is an endangered species.

This kind of book, we’re told, is outdated. Archaic.  The quaint stuff of collectors and historians.  Practically obsolete.  To hear technocrats explain the story of the printed volume, we …

Failures of Imagination

Essay by Matthew Vollmer

1.

On a day in late November, my wife and I brought a baby home from the hospital to live with us in our apartment at the corner of Main and Perrin Streets in Lafayette, Indiana. That this baby was …

The Looking Glass

Essay by Robert Appelbaum

There I am. Of course, I am not really there, but yeah, am I there! I look at myself and I assess myself and I think to myself—well, am I there. I am aware of myself posing, my mouth closed, …

Sacred Geography: Dispatches from India

Essay by Harold Jaffe

Ganges Dawn

Predawn, everyone’s awake, Kashi’s jumping.
Excluding the homeless thousands who are unawake.
I’m walking cautiously to the ghats in the semi-dark through littered streets, trying to distinguish trash from cardboard and newspaper humps of low-castes sleeping, groaning while …

Explosions

Essay by Ron Riekki

The biggest explosion I’ve ever seen was a goat’s head when I used to work on a farm.

That doesn’t make sense.

Sorry, I need to relax into this piece and keep it nonfiction.

I once lit a bottle rocket …

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