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2015
Throwback Thursday featuring "Each Self" from issue 289.2
I Can’t Quit You Mr. Starbucks Baby
At Home in the Pauses
Why We Need Description
Merry Christmas! Flashback Friday featuring "Christmas Story" from issue 284.6
Merry Christmas Eve! Throwback Thursday featuring "Our Barbaric Christmas"
Writing an Aleister Crowley lipogram from issue 300.2
Should White Poets Write About Race?
Professor Tolkien’s Rebel Readings of Beowulf
Native American Pen Names
Between the Personal and Political: Writing the Stories of Gay Liberation
Why I Do This
"The Wait" from issue 300.2
Writing towards the Light: “The Cop, the Hooker and the Ridealong” Flashback Friday Featuring Julie Brickman From Issue 294. 5
We’re the People Who Move: The Poetry of Rootlessness
Crack
Art and Oil
Necessity breeds invention! Flashback Friday Featuring Devi Sen Laskar From Issue 294.2
"The Western Lonesome Society, where the old West Meets Magic Realism" Throwback Thursday Featuring Robert Garner McBrearty from issue 291.6
Workers of the Real Estate Wealth Expo
Concerning "Man in Flower" from issue 300.2
Speak, Dog, Speak
Flashback Friday Featuring Amanda Chan, Illustration from Issue 292.2
Throwback Thursday Featuring Steve Fayer, "Sea Dogs" Issue 292.2
Longitudinal Relevance of the North American Review
The Sailor, the Witch, and the Faggot From Issue 293.2
Revision in Writing and Music
My Own Definition
Throwback Thursday Featuring, "Convoys" Issue 297.4
Throwback Thursday, "Smoke" Issue 292.2
My Unapologetic Ode to Melodrama
Throwback Thursday Featuring Rebecca Foust, "Strip Mine" from Vol. 292.2
FEAR: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
Throwback Thursday Featuring, Susan Elbe, "Some Music" Issue 292.2
Interview | Grant Tracey
Flashback Friday, "The Story of Love and Goodbye"
Throwback Thursday '(My) History of Parsley" Issue 292.2
Some Thoughts on Grief, Sentimentality, and "Faith," from Issue 297.4
Portraits, Landscapes, and Poetry
Flashback Friday Featuring Kelli Russell Agodon, "If You Awake After I've Gone" Issue 292.2
Notes on "Borders"
Notes on "Across The Lake Of Clouds" from J.P. Dancing Bear
The Last Alchemist
Notes on "I was shot by someone in a grey sedan"
Throwback Thursday featuring Harry Brod, "Democracy vs. Plutocracy" Redux Issue 292.2
On Living and Writing "Complaint with Parking Lot Vegetable Stand & Child's Cry"
Feng Shui in the Mind
PUNCTUATION IN POETRY
"Prosody and Being Equal to Life" from Issue 299.4
Throwback Thursday featuring Michael Kriesel from issue 292.2
Movieverse
Stomp Kicking Our Way to Heaven from issue 299.3
Notes on "Brief History of Midwestern Civilzation"
Flashback Friday Featuring Jeanne Emmons with "Polio Water in 1955" from issue 291.2
Writing is an Incremental Art
A NARROWLY GLOBAL REPUTATION
Literary Afterlives
A Room of One's Own?
Notes on "The Allure of Churches" from issue 299.3
Throwback Thursday featuring Dilruba Ahmed from issue 291.2
The Unsympathetic Voice In Poetry; Courage, Clarity, Truth, Uncertainty
Madwomen in the Attic: Engendering Voice
How to Use a Frying Pan to Improve Your Writing
A Brief Meditation on Hummingbirds: Finding Your Sweet Source from issue 300.2 Spring 2015
Throwback Thursday featuring Mariette Landry from issue 291.2
Notes on "Picture of an Indian Girl, Chiapas" from issue 300.3
"The Backest Backstory" from issue 300.03
Savior Complected: Honoring Other Voices, Using My Own
The Author and Signers of the Declaration of Independence from Vol. 186, No. 622
self-inflicted ethnic cleansing—against self censorship
Throwback Thursday featuring Wyatt Townley from issue 291.2
Cyntactical Poetry
Excerpt from "Hog Island" from issue 300.3
Perseverance
Writing "First Husband" from issue 300.3
THROWBACK THURSDAY FEATURING ARLENE DISTLER FROM ISSUE 291.2
Writing Under the Influence
What I Learned from Carol Channing
Flashback Friday featuring Joan Colby from issue 293.2
The conclusion to "Standing Deadwood" from issue 294.3-4
A Special Saturday featuring "Standing Deadwood" from issue 294.3-4
Throwback Thursday featuring Roy Bentley from issue 293.2
A Teaching Moment
Can Books Fly?
My Daughter Asked Me Once To Write Her a Poem
On a Secret Language of Women as Fragrance, or Postscript to “A Short Autobiography of Perfume”
Life Stories