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Poem from 'we plié, unto this last'

Poem from 'we plié, unto this last'

11 years ago
Patrick Phillips
Poetry, Quick Reads
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Title page of  'we plié, unto this last' what-life, wilderness. what dawn, its smallness and our, our line strung on with it. what...
A Short Visit with Vera Shorter

A Short Visit with Vera Shorter

11 years ago
Perry Garfinkel
Interview, Quick Reads, Uncategorized
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Vera Shorter at home. Photo by Lynn Christoffers On Books, Civil Rights and Smoking At 92, Vera Shorter has slowed down. Slightly....
Kale is Dead. Long Live Kale.

Kale is Dead. Long Live Kale.

11 years ago
Catherine Walthers
Essay, Quick Reads
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How publishing cycles and vegetable celebrity don't always align.   My aunt called the other day. “I’m going to send you an article,”...
Chapter Fifteen. Insomnia

Chapter Fifteen. Insomnia

11 years ago
Sian Rebecca Williams
Fiction, Quick Reads, Vineyard Midnight
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Ag Fair, West Tisbury, 2013, by Ed Keating An excerpt from Sian Rebecca Williams' second novel, Fourteen. By Sian Rebecca Williams...
Just Thinking: My Husband Was Right About Everything

Just Thinking: My Husband Was Right About Everything

11 years ago
Nancy Aronie
Essay, Quick Reads
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Tiny House in a windstorm — Photo by Tammy Strobell, flickr.com/rowdykittens About a year ago, my husband told me I didn’t need anoth...

What Mattered in August

11 years ago
Laura Wainwright
Essay, Quick Reads, Vineyard Midnight
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“I’m setting the alarm for midnight,” my husband Whit whispered as I came out of our children’s tiny bedroom and latched the narrow door b...
Jack Yuen

Jack Yuen

11 years ago
Arts & Ideas
Artist Profiles, Artists, Quick Reads
2
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I have been expressing myself through a visual language ever since I could hold a crayon. Most of my life I would draw in pencil as realisti...
Unreality TV: Irish Mike and His Big Giant Swords

Unreality TV: Irish Mike and His Big Giant Swords

11 years ago
Amelia Smith
Features, Film & TV, Quick Reads
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My husband, Michael Craughwell, started making YouTube videos when he made his first giant sword in 2007. At the time, the user name Michael...
Romeo and Juliet at the Fish Market

Romeo and Juliet at the Fish Market

12 years ago
Valerie Sonnenthal
Artists, Painting, Quick Reads
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The Paintings of Kateryna Yermakova “We are like Romeo and Juliet; we don’t talk politics.” I frequent Stan Larsen’s Menemsha Fish M...
Random Acts of Kindness in Hell

Random Acts of Kindness in Hell

12 years ago
Pam Putney
Essay, Non Fiction, Quick Reads
1
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Full of Flowers. Photographs by Pam Putney. It was after midnight in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, but my tuk tuk driver, Hiep, was still wai...
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