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The path to meaning

By Cortney Phillips Meriwether When Gregory Orr first published The Blessing in 2002, he did so after years of...

Articulating ‘Mexican Heaven’

Most people avert their eyes when the world gets messy: they scrunch uncooperative hair into the safety of ballcaps,...

It’s complicated

A confession: I’m not adequately prepared to discuss Peter Allen’s “Un-becoming” show at McGuffey Art Center with the...

Shared experience

Local poet and pediatrician Irène Mathieu has been a storyteller for as long as she can remember. Before she learned...

Building what’s next

Seventeen syllables. Seventeen syllables to say whatever you want, to say as much, or as little, as you’d like. Hell,...

Travel guidance

Author Erika Howsare first made acquaintance with Isabella Bird as an undergrad, while sifting through a reading...

Letting it flow

As a child, Kyle Dargan began writing rhymes largely as a matter of convenience. “If you wanted to make music,...