More Earth Day Reading Material With Earth Day coming up on April 22nd, a lot of us are thinking more about the state of the planet. Indeed some people have even gone so [...] April 18, 2016
Poet’s Corner: The Blue of The Sky Never Ceases – Marsha Solomon See beauty in the chaos The broken limbs of trees And salt burnt branches Of once thriving trees The sun still warms in mid-December And [...] April 17, 2016
Bas Dreisinger’s Incarceration Nations – Re-Imagining Criminal Justice Reform In an October 2014 edition of The New Yorker, Jennifer Gonnerman wrote about sixteen-year-old Bronx resident, Kaleif Browder, who, in the [...] April 13, 2016
The Eloquence of the Dead – Murder in Victorian Dublin “Ah but it’s great, to know that the poor sloggers in the police can take credit for keeping the system going.” Dublin, 1887; a [...] April 13, 2016
Reveries on Sally Mann’s Hold Still – Being Pleasantly Lost in One’s Thoughts I was watching Charlie Rose late one night, almost a year ago, in my home in Crans Montana, Switzerland. I was immediately captured by [...] April 11, 2016
Poet’s Corner: How To Write a Poem – Esther Cohen April is National Poetry Month. If you’ve ever wanted to write a poem, but don’t know how to get started, Esther Cohen tells [...] April 10, 2016
The Girl From Home – When the Past Becomes the Future The plot has become a familiar one in everything from TV shows and films to novels and memoirs. The hero or heroine is a master or mistress [...] April 9, 2016
The Railwayman’s Wife – Books Provide a Refuge From Pain There is no beautiful now, no terrible then, just these trails of things going on and on. The Railwayman’s Wife by Ashley Hays, takes [...] April 5, 2016