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Women Writers in the Wild:
Lilace Mellin Guignard and
Suzanne Roberts in Conversation

December 13, 2019

“There’s no denying that the baggage we carry—the fear—isn’t just of our own making but handed to us by society and the fact that some people ... Read More...

Old Roads, New Stories:
Traveling Through Time
by Rob Carney

April 5, 2019

Currents, Old Roads, New Stories

A Literary Series Driving West-Northwest on the Interstate There’s a road sign along I-70 near the Utah/Colorado border that says, “Travel... Read More...

Terrain.org and Friends of Columbia Gorge Host Conservation in Verse, Featuring Jane Hirshfield and Kim Stafford

January 28, 2019

Events, News

Conservation in Verse: Authors, Artists & Activists on Protecting the Landscapes We Love Literature, photography and art have lon... Read More...

Letter to America
by Jeffrey Thomson

December 23, 2018

Currents, Guest Editorial, Letter to America

Guest Editorial Dear America, More than 150 years ago a woman in Amherst, Massachusetts, wrote this poem: ... Read More...

Letter to America
by Scott Minar
with a Poem by Riad Saleh Hussein
translated by Saleh Razzouk

November 22, 2018

Currents, Guest Editorial, Letter to America

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...

Letter to America
by Christopher Merrill

September 17, 2018

Currents, Guest Editorial, Letter to America

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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...

Recommended Reads on Metaphor in Nonfiction, by Nicole Walker

The New World
by Bryan Walpert

September 17, 2017

Nonfiction

If I take a walk through this university campus in New Zealand, a country which has been my home for a dozen years, walk past the too-familiar... Read More...

Old Roads, New Stories: Marine Biology
by Rob Carney

January 4, 2017

Currents, Old Roads, New Stories

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A Literary Series As a kid growing up in Washington, I had a giant admiration for Slick Watts. “Downtown” Freddie Brown too, of co... Read More...

Letter to America
by Ann Fisher-Wirth

December 26, 2016

Currents, Guest Editorial, Letter to America

Guest Editorial Dear America, At my yoga studio’s holiday party last weekend, these words, in swirling letters, were my present,... Read More...

Letter to America
by Nicole Walker

December 1, 2016

Currents, Guest Editorial, Letter to America

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Guest Editorial Dear America, I have been writing letters to Arizona Governor Ducey for the past year and a half to protest his di... Read More...

Old Roads, New Stories: Music History II
by Rob Carney

May 4, 2016

Currents, Old Roads, New Stories

A Literary Series Two things happened that got me thinking. This was during the Get Lit! Literary Festival, and I was staying at the Red Li... Read More...

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