parenting
All Our Broken Beaches: Thoughtlessness of Strangers
A day at the beach turns sour when inconsiderate visitors park machines on the sand where children play, filling the air with gasoline fumes.
Poetry
Emily Dickinson's Poems Become Public Domain
Copyright ends, creativity begins. Dickinson’s Further Poems is now public—learn the story of feuds, fame, and freedom in art. When Emily Dickinson died in 1886, she left an astonishing 1,800 unpublished poems behind. And, because of a strange quirk of copyright law, an important part of this
Review
Without the Cliff by Caitlin Coey — A Review
Childhood traumas, reflections, and poetry for a brighter world.
Poetry
“Love,” the dead man sings
a poem for hard times
Poetry
A Poem for Morning
poetry opens the path to the feelings we cannot otherwise describe
Writing
Richard Wright: The Best American Haiku
With Haiku, a self-nurturing could begin, albeit so close to his own death. Wright offers his perspective, his own loneliness, and his own desire for wholeness within three simple lines of poetry, allowing us to know him intimately at his most vulnerable and his most human.