Tag Archives: Fall 2026

An Interview of Sharon Hostler by Sharon Harrigan


 

Scroll to the end of the interview for excerpt from Making Rounds. In her new memoir, Sharon Hostler writes candidly about her life, both professional and personal. We see her raise two children while also becoming a major force in a new model of patient-centered care. We watch her wrestle not only with the obstacles society imposed on her, but with her own preconceptions. Her insights into how race, gender, and class shaped different people’s medical experiences are fascinating. The memoir takes us from her difficult childhood in Vermont to her against-the-odds career in academic … Continue reading An Interview of Sharon Hostler by Sharon Harrigan →

Nine Feet Apart by David I. Hughes

Graphic of cloud with sun behind it, lightning in front of it, rain falling from it
 

David Hughes is the 1st place winner of Streetlight‘s 2026 Poetry Contest This is the silence with a fault line. Not a void, but a region freshly mapped. The sofa’s middle is a no-man’s-land, a treaty’s definition. The air is parceled into spheres of influence: yours, by the cold fireplace, mine, by the window where I watch the rain. A sentence would be an incursion. A glance, a border violation. We have become two different pressures. You, a high front of resistance. I, a low system of conjecture. The weather in this room requires distance of … Continue reading Nine Feet Apart by David I. Hughes →