Blessed are those who have survived long enough to grow into new people, to surpass their past selves.

THIS YEAR, America will mark its semiquincentennial. We will reach 250 years of what is sometimes called “the American Experiment,” the idea that a large constitutional democracy based on individual ...

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We are what we take into ourselves: penis, peach, and light, the music from living notes, hear and gone. The notes were here ...

A WOODCHUCK IS WOOLLY. Who knows what he thinks? He hibernates in his underground lair, a groundhog by any other name, his tail not quite reaching his nose. He slumbers all winter there, living off ...

Jerry Martien is the author of Pieces in Place, a collection of poems, and Shell Game: A True Account of Beads and Money in North America. He teaches at Humboldt ...

Reg Saner‘s work has appeared widely in literary magazines and anthologies. His collection of nonfiction, The Dawn Collector: On My Way to the Natural World, explores his local and extragalactic ...

southern Illinois. His work appears in several galleries around North America, including the Fred Kline Gallery in Santa Fe. Please enable JavaScript in your browser ...