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Laurence Musgrove: All
We learn all kinds of thingsWhether they are taught to us or not,And nothing is more deeply learned thanWhat it means to be among our own.We learn how to be a “We,”An “Us,” and what’s “Ours.”“We” also...
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Desne A. Crossley: O Rosie Girl
My mother had been gone seventeen years by then. It was the summer of 1967, and she and I were “home,” as she called Cincinnati. I was a Chicagoan like my father until last summer when the three of us...
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Joan E. Bauer: Remembering Sanora Babb
Ray Bradbury knew Babb from a longtime workshop: The author of a promising Dust Bowl novel that editor Bennet Cerf shelved in ‘39, saying— What rotten luck! claiming her work ‘an anti-climax’ after...
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Jake Johnson: UN Rights Chief Demands International Probe of Mass Graves Near...
“Hospitals are entitled to very special protection under international humanitarian law,” said Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights. TEHRAN, Apr. 23 (MNA) – A mass grave...
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Elizabeth Gargano: How Parables Teach Us Who We Are
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. (Seven Stories Press, 1993) . In my contemporary fiction class at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, I often teach Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of...
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Tony Gloeggler: Blessings
The moral of these stories is that all blessings are mixed —From John Updike’s TOO FAR TO GOThese days we make appointments to play slow motion basketball in Long Island City, sit on benches to catch...
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Mel Duncan: There’s a better way to make communities safer — and it’s taking...
A growing number of courageous and creative people are showing that unarmed civilian protection is far superior to any smart or dumb weapon. The wars in Ukraine and Palestine continue to escalate as...
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