Letter to America
by Elizabeth Dodd
Guest Editorial: Witness the Present Mexican War
Dear America,
Henry David Thoreau has lived in my head all my adult life, a... Read More...
Old Roads, New Stories:
Poems as Rakes
by Rob Carney
A Literary Series
So there’s this joke I heard once—I forget where—that goes something like this:
A Dean of Humanities ... Read More...
Letter to America
by Jeffrey Thomson
Guest Editorial
Dear America,
More than 150 years ago a woman in Amherst, Massachusetts, wrote this poem:
... Read More...
Old Roads, New Stories:
Extra Credit If You Read This at Work
by Rob Carney
A Literary Series
My wife Jen is telling a story about work. She teaches at Meadowlark Elementary (Go Larks!), and there... Read More...
Letter to America
by Scott Minar
with a Poem by Riad Saleh Hussein
translated by Saleh Razzouk
Mortar Shells, Lunch, and Poetry
Dear America,
My friend Saleh Razzouk sits having lunch in his apartment in Aleppo. He may be worki... Read More...
Old Roads, New Stories:
Día de los Muertos
by Rob Carney
A Literary Series
Say you’re adrift like I am. Say it’s 81 miles from this spot to Next Services, plus or minus the sun ... Read More...
Old Roads, New Stories:
I’d Rather be a Hawk
by Rob Carney
A Literary Series
Like me, my friend Jason hates sestinas. Here’s what he wrote in a poem of his recently:
I was at a p... Read More...
Transforming Art into Action
at the University of the Parks
by Danielle Beazer Dubrasky
Guest Editorial
Southern Utah University, located in Cedar City, was recently designated the “University of the Parks” for its close ... Read More...
Letter to America
by Christopher Merrill
Guest Editorial
Dear America,
On Memorial Day weekend I attend a forum in Nanjing that drew sinologists from around the world for di... Read More...
A Life of Science:
The Human Story of Transformation
in Coastal Bangladesh
by Saleh Ahmed
A Series by New Scientists
Most people in Bangladesh have experiences with natural hazards. I am not an exception. Since childhood, ... Read More...
Old Roads, New Stories:
In the Beginning was the Word
by Rob Carney
A Literary Series
Despite the political time we’re living in now, we can’t let Habit and Lack of Imagination win. Habit ... Read More...
Letter to America
by Danielle Beazer Dubrasky
Guest Editorial
Dear America,
Summer 1975—the end of my fifth grade year and the start of my family’s ritual of nightly barbecues o... Read More...
