By Pete Tothero
Competing urban lantern festival companies are involved in litigation over who invented lantern festivals, which are not a thing.
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By Pete Tothero
Competing urban lantern festival companies are involved in litigation over who invented lantern festivals, which are not a thing.
By Sarah DeYoreo
On the morning of May 28, Sarah DeYoreo sent the following email to the 500-plus employees of Morrison Child & Family Services, where DeYoreo worked as a “milieu counselor” with unaccompanied immigrant children in Portland, Oregon.
By Daneen Bergland & Wendy Bourgeois
A conversation about poetry, philosophy, the role of autobiography in criticism, and Wendy Bourgeois’s essay collection, The Devil Says Maybe I Like It.
By Mary Rechner
Debra Gwartney talks about structure and self-awareness in her new memoir, I am a Stranger Here Myself.
By Matt Hartman
If the essential challenge of criticism is to get others to see what you see in an object, the challenge today is to resist the critical landscape that shapes how we approach art in the first place.
By John Carr Walker
My father took the whole family suckering the spring I was eleven, my sister six. It's the only time I remember all of us working in the vineyards together. Dad was trying to teach us a lesson about work ethic—Dad always said he was teaching work ethic, though I can say now the only thing I learned from him about work was do things his way, or else.
On The Steer podcast, Wendy Bourgeois talks with Sunny Bleckinger about marrying criticism and the personal essay.
Wendy Bourgeois and Matthew Robinson read at Happy House.
By Keri Thomas
Does what animals feel bear some resemblance to what we feel?
We’ll celebrate Wendy Bourgeois’ essay collection at Boys Fort.
Asem’s memoir of detainment is new from Perfect Day Publishing.
His article on the OES disaster appears in the current issue of Outside magazine.
By Noah Powell
When help isn’t helping.
Dan DeWeese chats with Cheston Knapp about his essay collection Up Up, Down Down.
By Carol Fischbach
Getting to a place where I considered my body a sacred space was difficult after being raised Catholic and having an angry, depressed mother. Mostly, I just knew that I didn’t want to swallow a fly.
By Patrick McGinty
Judging a student poetry competition helps clarify the importance of newsroom diversity.