Our pre-calculus teacher called us the “Loquacious Lilies” — bright-eyed and giggling at girlhood’s perimeter.
Mathematical Proof for Body by Ali Tarbox Saperstein
Category: May-June 2022
Throwing Myself into Walls by Jessica Slice
We almost said no when they asked if we had space for a newborn. We had been foster parents for only a few months….
Your Wife Knows You Are Here by Helene Kiser
I don’t know this yet, but I will remember this moment always. Our heads pressed together, M’s face in my hands, breathing each other’s breath…
Things Grow Here by Leah Richards
We make music in our house, though none of us are particularly gifted. We sing each other to sleep and plink on children’s tiny pianos.
Screwdriver by Deb Fenwick
My father tells me to come to the hardware store with him because my brother’s too busy playing with dolls.
This is Not Baby Weight by Adina Ferguson
I often catch myself doing that thing pregnant women do as their hands rest just below the tip of their bosoms….
CRAFT: Tell Me Your Stories — Travel Among Friends and Family as a Research Methodology in Narrative Nonfiction by Sarah Einstein
The manuscript I’m working on both is and isn’t travel writing….
WRITING LIFE: The Black Panther Needs to Sprawl by Connie Kinsey
Soon, I will bring the outside in.
INTERVIEW: Maud Newton, Author of Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and Reconciliation
Maud Newton took a break from her myriad publicity and writing obligations to chat with me, via email…
REVIEW: City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life Into a Dying American Town by Susan Hartman
The story of three immigrants helping to transform the city of Utica, N.Y., gives fresh insights about refugees forced to flee home.
