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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 3 days, 13 hours ago
A Very Small Adventure by Susan Shafarzek
Many, oh, many, many, years ago, a friend and I took a plane trip to Minneapolis, Minn. It was not a first flight, but it was a first time west for […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 6 days, 13 hours ago
Dear Portland: a Love Letter to My Childhood Sweetheart by Melissent Zuwalt
We first met holding hands at the outdoor Saturday market, vendors selling tie-dyed tee shirts and us eating foods that seemed exotic to me, like […]
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Alex Joyner commented on the post, Thoughts on Place by Sharon Ackerman 1 week ago
This is really beautiful and resonates so much with me.
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Trudy wrote a new post 1 week, 3 days ago
My Wife Is In Love by E. H. Jacobs
Five years ago, my wife fell in love. I’m not talking about me (we have been married thirty-nine years, so I hope the falling in love thing happened m […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 week, 6 days ago
A Gull and The Black Birch, 2 poems by J. R. Solonche
A Gull A gull so far from the river circles the parking lot. Its whiteness is lost in this late fall day’s brightness. Its black edges are lost […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Duck Blind by Regina Guarino
Across the narrow alley way between row houses, where trash cans totter and feral cats loiter, a window opens onto the neighbors’ kitchen. For o […]
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Elizabeth Howard started the topic New Shows at McGuffey Art Center in the forum Art Shows & Exhibits 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Eileen French + Emily Howe, Theebumper, oil and charcoal on canvas
SARAH B. SMITH GALLERY
JANUARY 4TH – JANUARY 29TH
Incubator Alumni + McGuffey Artists
Pairings . . . a collaborative happening
This exhibition is made up of 6 of our 2021-2022 Incubator Artists. Each artist selected a McGuff…[Read more] -
Deborah Kelly wrote a new post 3 weeks, 3 days ago
When I was about twelve years old, I found John Christopher’s YA Tripods books in the library. In this series, the humans on Earth have reverted to an agricultural, village-based society dominated by aliens who s […]
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Elizabeth Howard started the topic Jane Skafte Shows at Chroma in the forum Art Shows & Exhibits 3 weeks, 5 days ago
“Ornamental Tree in Bloom” Watercolor, gouache, watercolor pencil 22 x 30
Chroma in Vault Virginia: First Friday January 6th, from 5:00 – 7:00 PM
ForJane Skafte:
A lifetime isn’t long enough for the beauty of this world
“I find beauty in nature’s constantly changing…[Read more]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 3 weeks, 6 days ago
When the Waters Rise or Storm Descends
Each family will have gathered
what is durable and light.
How far will the little ones walk
before they ask to be carried.
What else will you set down.
When are we […] -
Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 3 weeks, 6 days ago
Culture Shock by Rachel Lutwick-Deaner
Fifteen years ago, I knew that moving to the Midwest would be a kind of culture shock. I knew it because I googled “Regional Food of Michigan” and the […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 1 month ago
When I was very young, I memorized the poem “Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas, unaware that I had been drawn into poetry of place. Short-sighted, I read it as a poem about the loss of innocence which mirrored some […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 1 month ago
Sure to Glisten by Ashley Taylor
The vermillion sun salts our mouths, warmth brimming with the sapor of brine. I write on my arm the torrid air a salve for wounds pleasure […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 month, 1 week ago
Between the two American holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas, it seems appropriate to write about one aspect of both: food.
Traditionally the first Thanksgiving was a celebration of a successful, […]
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Anita M commented on the post, Do These New Lungs Make Me Look Fat? 1 month, 1 week ago
I’m glad your Mom directed me here via her FB post.
Its well-written honesty, vulnerability, wit, and heartwarming strength inspires me. Best wishes to you always. -
Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 1 month, 1 week ago
Mollypops, we called them, stomping
with our small shoes,
heaving them like baseballs,
bursting them green
against the barn wall.
We were children, seeking
to destroy, as children do,
leaving the […] -
Deborah Kelly wrote a new post 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Turning sixty last month mandated a driver’s license renewal that replaced my wide-eyed forty-year-old self with a puffy-eyed, wrinkly-necked person unmistakably related to the round-faced woman who gave me l […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Immersed by Caroline Kahlenberg
People will say it was suicide, but you mustn’t believe them. They’ll say I looked normal at first, a tall woman with long black hair […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 month, 2 weeks ago
I reach for a glass jar of sweet gherkins and notice the same unfamiliar woman is following me down another aisle in the grocery store.
I wonder if it is a coincidence. My gut tells me otherwise.
The […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Is it the nature of desire or
the desire of nature to reveal
how little we have evolved.Is it the few words of a person or
a person of few words who
commands our attention.Is it the history of violence […]
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