Genre: Grantee Story

A Petrified Forest

A Petrified Forest   The trunks and branches bare no leaves The trees still made sound The wicked wind from the West huffed and puffed The roots held tight to… Read More

The Book

Magnum Opus   During 2020, the year of pandemic isolation, I decided to focus the formidable abundance of “at home” time on a labor intensive computer project that I was… Read More

O Som Do Jazz

July 2021 | By David Manson O Som Do Jazz   . . . About 12 years ago my wife Andrea and I formed O Som Do Jazz (“the sound… Read More

Start In The Mess – Using Writing to Figure it Out

Something to try this weekend: forget the neat lines of your life that look good from the outside. Forget the places where you think you have things figured out. What are the things you don’t know, the questions that pull at you? Is there a fictional place you can create for these questions to play out in some way? Where might that energy take you?… Read More

The Isolated Visual Artist

July 2021 | By Don Gialanella Starving for Attention . . . . . . This type of isolation has nothing to do with the pandemic. Artists are isolated from… Read More

All-4-1

March 2021 | By Emily Stehle 12 Hearts and Minds Working Together – a Collaboration and Installation . . . Did I tell you about a collaboration and installation I… Read More

Healthy Obsession

April 2021 | By Nikki Devereux   I’ve been pondering the question, “what is a healthy amount of obsession?” My mind tends to be overactive at night (and sometimes during… Read More

Looking Back

Halcyon Days I came across this old magazine interview from 2008. I thought it was interesting to see what I was thinking and doing back then. I was surprised at… Read More

Young Voices

May 2021 | By Sara Ries Dziekonski   I want to say how incredibly grateful I am to encounter such amazing talent from young writers. I am constantly inspired by… Read More

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