Inheritances by Bliss Goldstein

Inheritances My brother tells me he wants to save me from the shock of finding out what’s in Ma’s will. Do you want me to read you what she said? His phone voice...

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Two Poems by Michele Keane-Moore

Brood Covid We have been underground For what feels like forever Sucking on our cell phones As if they were tree roots. Now the time has come To put aside...

Two Poems by Pamela Mathison-Levitt

C’est La Vie Two men stood up and beggedfor the lives of their wives. Back home, their bills stickin the mailbox,a half gallon of milk curdles,and...

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This article was a finalist in the 2022 DC Student Arts Journalism Competition. Click here to learn more about the competition. John Davis rolled over...

Four Poems by Greta Ehrig

Interlude Even the Evening Grosbeaks yearn to move on,wandering from there to here to somewhere gone, partying at the feeder for a quarter of an hourthen...

Kelly Mayfield on “Perspective/Shift”

A year ago I realized I wasn’t doing what I set out to do. I wasn’t performing, choreographing, or teaching. I was doing some of those things, some of the time, but none were fully realized.

Two Poems by DL Pravda

Boativation (Kayak Poem #22) Broen and I catch Mother Weather napping,push off into her belly, glide on glassinto the York River. Glittering current requiresthe paddle...

Two Poems By Yehoshua November

The poems in this post are part of a special section, curated by Ori Z Soltes and Robert Bettmann, The Jewish Experience. There is Only...

The State of American Dance by Nejla Yatkin

Dancer, Choreographer and Dance Educator Nejla Yatkin discusses tensions between commercial and concert dance, and how funding styles (American v. European) impact the development of work.

Words I Write by Fran Abrams

Words I Write are words you read.Do my words bring you warmthlike sun on shoulders? Exhilarationlike riding a motor bike fast?Laughing childrenwho make you laugh? Poems...

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