We are the Unenlightened Generalists. We form connections between people and ideas through education, art, information science, human development, and applied philosophy.
Craft talk and writer's-block first aid: editors, drafts, poetic kennings, and the ongoing fight to keep your voice your own.
Em Dash
As a teacher, proofreader, and writer, I am perhaps unusually passionate about the em dash. I feel personally incised by the way people are abandoning this punctuation mark.
Poetry
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 188
Writing
Birthing a story takes effort and dedication, and your editor is the midwife.
Advice
Contrasts are a powerful method of constructing new ideas and new trains of thought.
Flash Fiction
“All the good luck in the world doesn’t matter, someone always forgets to lock their window or their door.”
Flash Fiction
“Don’t go out with him!” A woman had appeared, suddenly, right next to the check-out counter.
Flash Fiction
The librarian smiled. “That’s the book you need, no doubt.”
Flash Fiction
She is currently screaming obscenities at him while police shove her into the back of their squad car.
Flash Fiction
The hospital was just ahead now, pearly white in the rain’s fog.
