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Issue 164

The Children’s Book of Questions and Answers

There are some things I know now that I can’t unknow. That a tree never stops growing if it’s alive. That jumping beans jump because they have little insects inside them (gross), and that people who stand too much get flat feet. Read more.

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Issue 164

I Am

As I go outside, I realize there’s a very clear veil between me and the real world. This happens sometimes, like I accidently side-step my own dimension into someone else’s. Read more.

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Issue 164

White Sneakers

My sister cooked up the idea. She’d found this Scandinavian Students’ Association trip that went across the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics by train, stopping in different cities along the way. In those days you couldn’t really go to the USSR except on some sort of official tour like that.  Read more.

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The Writer’s Corner

November 22, 2022

Lindsay Zier-Vogel’s Writing Space

There are not a lot of doors in my house. It took me until the pandemic to really notice this, but with two kids at home, I quickly learned the value of doors. In March 2020, I started writing in my bedroom, but all those sleep experts are onto something when they say that working […]

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November 17, 2022

What is Pamela Porter Reading?

I’ve spent some time thinking about how to answer the question, “Who’s Reading What?” And I’ve concluded that, as a poet, what I read is predominantly poetry, and what spurs me often to begin to write is the cadence in the poems I read from the work of others. For many months I read Linda […]

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November 9, 2022

What’s Elana Wolff Reading?

I recently returned to Canada after a long stretch abroad. I was on a caregiving mission and didn’t have a lot of time to myself. But I did read: Amor Towles’ comic romp, A Gentleman in Moscow, a stylish retro novel of manners; Ann Shin’s The Last Exiles, a chilling and compelling work inspired by […]

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