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Giving Versus Receiving: Which Requires Skill?

The Greatest Christmas Film Ever Made

Gun-Free Entertainment #1: Severance

Gun-Free Entertainment

Is the Sonnet Form Still Worth It?

Floating an Idea to Readers and the Substack Community

Repost: Can One Person Make a Difference?

A Poetry Exercise: Dream Grammar

Our Universities and the Middle East

An Important Announcement About The Human Body

Dreaming Ali

We Don't Need to Defend the Humanities

Clichés to End the Wars

Training People for Jobs They Won't Do

Cinderella, As Told by Birds

Please End the "Keanussance"

Thank You, and a Tony Hoagland Poem In Return

A Poem for Sunday

Hey, I'm Over at 'The Books That Made Us' Today!

Liketown

To the Person Who Put the “Caps Lock” Key Next to the Letter “A”

Homer-Erotic

Acoustic Shadows

Ultrasound

A Poem by... Me!

Poetry Sunday

Music Friday!

Movies Are Telling Us That We Are Not Interesting

Women & Weights at the Y

Louise Glück and Discomforting Beauty

Rocky Would Get Knocked Out Today

Video of 6:30 Music Series Performance

A Quick Reminder...6:30 Series Performance Tonight!

Poetry Sunday

Music Friday!

Please Join Me in Being Furious at the World (Just for Today)

Poetry Sunday!

Music Friday! (And a bomb threat update related to social media. Hooray!)

Once You Leave Social Media, Should You Ever Go Back?

We Are Never "All Clear"

The Parents Are Not Alright

Poetry Sunday

Music Friday!

A Poem for Sunday

Music Friday!

Maybe There Is A Music of the Spheres?

Poetry Sunday Delayed! (Disguised as a Bottoms movie review)

Adventures in Trying to Get In Shape, Part Infinity

Music Friday!

Education is Risk

Prison Education Series: Final Edition

A Poem for Sunday

Music Friday!

Hate at the debate should not be tolerated for next year's RNC

Was Crazy Horse Told to Kill a Woman?

I wrestle with my goodness just like Jean Valjean

Prison Education Series

A Poem for Sunday

Music Friday

Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro. Read It!

Prison Education Series

A Poem for Sunday

Music Friday (A Day Late)

Lahaina is Gone (Updated)

Prison Education Series

A Poem for Sunday

Music Friday!

The Kids Are Alright (Part II)

A Poem for Sunday

Christopher Nolan and A Man's World

Music Friday

How I Learned to Fear the Bomb

America and the Death of Vincent Van Gogh

Falling In and Out of Love with Profanity

When Writing is Fighting

A Poem for Sunday

My Brain is Unremarkable

Music Friday

"Let Me Tell You A Story" Thursday

Poetry and Staying Sane

Sometimes I Meet People

Start with Poems You Can Understand

A Poem for Sunday

The Writer as National Figure

Music Friday

Journalism and AI Guidlines

The Kids (and maybe even their elders) are Alright

The Creator Speaks of the Creation

Poetry & Writing

Is History a Palindrome?

A Poem for Sunday

The World's Most Misread Poem

Music Friday

Part II: Can One Person Make a Difference?

Can One Person Make a Difference?

Langston Hughes on a Holiday

I Said a Bad Word

Letting Go of What You've Made

In Praise of the Book You Used to Love

Music Friday

Make More Elite Institutions

Protest is in the AI of the Beholder

Where Do You Seek the Unexpected?

All that is Beloved

Music Sunday

Sometimes There's No Faking It

What to Do with Comics and the Multiverse(s)

Busy Day Today...

To the Teachers of Poetry

Videogames in the Curriculum

Introducing 'The Declining Academic'