Dispatches from the Swamp: Storm’s Coming
It was as if I could hear the whole country breathing softly, softly, together. Finally, the sleepless eye had closed.
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Next Letters for Kids: Margarita Engle
Our next Letter for Kids comes from National Young People’s Poet Laureate Margarita Engle!
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Happy eclipse day. We here at DWMC will be back up and running tomorrow morning, but in the meantime spend your morning reading Annie Dillard’s 1982 essay “Total Eclipse.”
Wisdom Is a Double-Edged Sword: Talking with Jay Baron Nicorvo
Jay Baron Nicorvo discusses his debut novel, The Standard Grand, how easy it is for civilians to forget about soldiers and veterans, and his longstanding love of animals.
Notable Twin Cities: 8/20–8/26
Literary events and readings in and around the Twin Cities this week!
Entering an Open Doorway: Marjorie Agosín’s Las Islas Blancas / The White Islands
Agosín’s poems, though quiet and seemingly simple, linger with an interior elasticity that does not break.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Another day another clue about a doomed expedition through the Northwest Passage. Here’s your midcentury New York photography for the day. India wants to bring you the world’s longest river.…