Image Credit: Land use maps produced by the Works Progress Administration in 1934. They render the Pacific Palisades area all the way to the Municipal Airport (at the time) along the Pacific…
Literacy Narrative
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
Literacy Narrative: Letter to an Uncle
by Guest Contributor June 11, 2020Dear Uncle R., Here’s what the stories have told me: you died in 1987 at home, not in Vietnam. I was born in 1990. My coworker—an army reserve who saw…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
Literacy Narrative: The Dis-located Imagination
by Guest Contributor June 4, 2020I’ve been living in exile for forty-two years now, about half of them away from home. If that’s as good a line as I think, it’s because, as Lao Tzu…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
Literacy Narrative: There’s No Such Thing as Nonfiction
by Guest Contributor May 28, 2020There’s no such thing as nonfiction. This might seem like the title of yet another essay on the merits of essayistic writing as its own genre and not just a…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
Literacy Narrative: The Body (Electric)
by Guest Contributor May 14, 2020Image Credit: Eliza Moore 1 I imagine Walt Whitman’s body Walt Whitman, an. American, one of the roughs, a kosmos, Disorderly fleshy and sensual, eating and drinking…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
Literacy Narrative: Estradiolian Aria
by Guest Contributor April 9, 20202.5 mg) This is not a tale of transformation, nor of trauma. The past and future keep splitting away, like cloven wood. Even the present—that urgent word, a disheveled storm—can’t…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeatured
Literacy Narrative: Diary of an Anxious Malcontent
by Guest Contributor April 2, 2020“Dear Journal, I am Emily May. I am ten years old. I am not sure what I am going to be for Halloween”: so began the first page of my…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeatured
Literacy Narrative: Honoring the Dead: A Road Trip as Epitaph
by Guest Contributor March 12, 2020Image Credit: All grave site photos by Sarah Laurentius The road to the Western Lands is by definition the most dangerous road in the world.” William S. Burroughs …
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeatured
Literacy Narrative: The Grief Syllabus
by Guest Contributor February 20, 2020“Don’t say mourning. It’s too analytical. I’m suffering.” —Roland Barthes, from a journal kept after his mother’s death…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
Literacy Narrative: Accents and Discernment
by Guest Contributor January 30, 2020For me, literacy was discovered in the Windy City’s cruel, winter howl—the intertwining of English, Spanish, and Polish a language all its own. Growing up in the Chicago Polish neighborhood…
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Image Credit: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Like most avid readers, I have long let Don Quixote, that seventeenth century tome of imaginary adventures, sit unread on my…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeatured
Literacy Narrative: On Red
by Guest Contributor January 16, 2020Image Credit: “Red Dresses” by Elena Filatov Red is my favourite colour. I have heard it said that red is a masculine colour, a patriarchal colour; the colour of…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeatured
Literacy Narrative: Supporting Details
by Guest Contributor January 9, 2020There are so many ways to get it wrong, to misread, to come to the pages we assign you—and fail. Maybe you see the same story, one of challenge and…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeatured
Literacy Narrative: A Tribe of Gifts
by Guest Contributor January 2, 2020Image Credit: James Cochran Monday morning we were up at the big rock we call Everest, with all the girl dolls, gathering. My older daughter, Elsie, was explaining why…