It is with great honor that we announce that the following pieces have been nominated for Best of the Net, an online collection of the best pieces on the internet… Poetry .chisaraokwu. When God Sat In Enugu, We Wondered Who We Were Danielle Wolffe Hair Care as an Act...
It is with great honor that we announce that the following pieces have been nominated for Best of the Net, an online collection of the best pieces on the internet… Fiction House of Fraser by Mahnaz Yousefzadeh Non-Fiction Wake up, this is history by Carlo Rey Lacsamana Poetry...
This excerpt was originally found on Brenda Peterson’s Website. Excerpted from the book “Wolf Haven: Sanctuary and the Future of Wolves in North America,” essays by Brenda Peterson, all photographs by Annie Marie Musselman. (Sasquatch Books) THEIR EYES FIND you first, often golden or dark-green and amber-flecked with a fierce and...
This excerpt from The Radiant Lives of Animals was originally published on YesMagazine.org. An Indigenous writer describes how ritual is the entryway to connection and wholeness. In The Radiant Lives of Animals, celebrated Chickasaw writer Linda Hogan draws on ancient stories and traditions to consider the connection among human consciousness, the natural...
This article was originally published in usask.ca. Louise Halfe is a BEI Emeritus Fellow. Elder and USask Indigenous advisor receives appointment as Parliamentary Poet Laureate Elder Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer, a highly-renowned University of Saskatchewan (USask) advisor, mentor, writer and honorary degree recipient, has been appointed as Canada’s...
This news was originally published on InsideUCR. UCR author Allison Hedge Coke has been inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters, or TIL. Founded in 1936 to celebrate Texas literature and recognize distinctive literary achievement, this is the 85th year members of the TIL have inducted new members to join the...
Information for this event was originally published by the Saskatchewan Writer’s Guild. Come watch the live event featuring Emeritus Fellow Louise Halfe! Let’s Chat – with Maria Campbell & Louise Bernice Halfe START: JANUARY 28, 2021 – 7:00 PM TO: 9:00 PM Please join Carol GoldenEagle as she chats with Maria Campbell...
This post was originally featured on PennStateNews. ALTOONA, Pa. — Todd Davis, professor of environmental studies and English at Penn State Altoona, has released the 15th installment of his “Notes from the Allegheny Front” audio blog. The latest installment is titled “People who Change Our Lives.” Listen to the latest...
Metta Sama’s poem, You Can’t Say Anything Anymore was recently featured in KorePress.org‘s Postcards to the Future Collection. Sama creates a powerful poem solely using common problematic remarks. #WhyWeCan’tHaveNiceThings I am terribly aggrieved about Atticus Finch being outed as a racist. I’d rather remember the good he did. Team...
The following poem by Drea Brown has been nominated by About Place Journal for the 2020 Pushcart Prize. at times it seems black life matters in death, and we die hard. this ain’t no lie. sometimes we see it coming, sometimes we go to sleep and never wake. then...
The following prose by Lisa Allen- Agostini has been nominated by About Place Journal for the 2020 Pushcart Prize. Cam couldn’t stop thinking of the girl’s perfect mouth. Perfect brown lips. When she laughed: the tender, moist, pink interior. Her straight, wide teeth like Altoids or really big Fresh’Ms....
The following poem by Marjory Wentworth has been nominated by About Place Journal for the 2020 Pushcart Prize. Whether it is morning And sunlight is seeping through Overlapping oak branches Bursting with bright leaves Or late in the day, after Rain has fallen and the scent Of spring...
The following poem by Sydney Epps has received a nomination for the 2020 Pushcart Prize. Is it a sin in this skin? No; it is a blessing See, the best teacher I had was this wrap Gifting a knowledge more potent than college A test that got y’all...
The following short by Vikram Ramakrishnan has received a nomination for the 2020 Pushcart Prize. One time Appa said the planet broke in half, and I looked down at the jagged line in the dirt he was pointing at and agreed, yeah, that’s a crack, but you think that...
Author Brenda Peterson offers her insight into the Trump Presidency, as well as the continuing wage divide between classes. Read her thought-provoking essay now! The Pathology of Privilege: Trump as Once or Future King Poor whites are not privileged–a note on the arrogance of many the rich By Brenda Peterson ...
Lauren Camp was recently mentioned in an article published by RDR News. Christina Stock makes her recommendations on the best way to spend an evening; A comforting meal with a comforting book. By Christina Stock In these past months, since the pandemic hit the state and forced us to...
Read this review of Scott Russell Sanders’s “At the Gates of Deep Darkness” by Tom Montgomery Fate. Originally published by The Christian Century. The artist at the end of the world Scott Russell Sanders’s essays balance ecological despair with the promise of human creativity. by Tom Montgomery Fate September 24, 2020 In...
Read this review of Lauren Camp’s “Took House” by Jennifer Levin. Originally published by Santa Fe New Mexican. Took House by Lauren Camp A few lines of poetry came to Lauren Camp as she stood outside at dusk. She doesn’t see well at that time of day, when the...