For 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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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
Literacy Narrative: Reader, I’m Literate
by Guest Contributor August 22, 2019Image Credit: Camile Corot, A Woman Reading It’s May 10, 2019, and it’s a sweltering evening in middle Georgia—specifically Milledgeville, Georgia—home of Flannery O’Connor (a Georgia College and State…
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Image Credit: Slate 1. The wet human hair looks opalescent through plastic. The man in the red flannel edges closer, bends down to get a better look, backs…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeaturedIntrospection
Saving Sylvia Plath by Samantha Payne
by Guest Contributor November 8, 2017We were drinking at the time—well, Nick and me at least. My younger brother, Josh, wouldn’t drink, won’t drink. We were all home from college, some in-between time during the…
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“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.” Over the years, Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar has had many covers. Here’s a few of them with some quotes directly…
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It’s October and Halloween is already around the corner. Of course you can get your horror fix by snuggling up with popcorn and watching a scary movie, but you can…
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More writing exists about Sylvia Plath than by her, and three more works came out in the first half of 2013: Carl Rollyson’s American Isis, Andrew Wilson’s Mad Girl’s Love…