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Families
By Jennifer Bannan It is 1975 and I’m 6 years old, and we’re on my [...]
Ferris Wheel
By Huck Beard First off, know that this narrative is not my own. It is [...]
Lighthouse
By Anjali Sachdeva Olivia was always getting lost in the county park, though she had [...]
A Lonely Landscape
By Sakena Jwan Washington inspired by “Man on Tracks,” a photograph by Huck Beard Darkness [...]
Darkening
By Jessica Manack I washed the dishes, like I did every night, looking out the [...]
Changing Minds
By T.N. Eyer We find the bust unboxed in the attic. Dust-covered and laden with [...]
War Widows in Braddock PA
By Sharon Dilworth They were unpredictable, difficult, always hard to handle. They rose from the [...]
The Kobold of Carbon County
By Ed Simon “Our coal, thousands of people were saying, is the real basis of [...]
Four Poems by Kris Collins
Hymns & Hers That’s how they mark the restroom doors here, Hymns and Hers. When [...]
Keweenaw County’s Echoes of Copper Mining
Keweenaw County, Michigan, once the heart of America’s copper mining industry, now stands as a quiet testament to the rise and fall of an industrial empire.
Relearning “The Piano Lesson”
The more of Wilson’s plays I read, the more I appreciated The Piano Lesson for its stark symbols and robust characters: Boy Willie and his determination to buy the land his ancestors had slaved on; Berniece, resolved to keep the piano and build a life for her daughter in Pittsburgh; Sutter’s ghost haunting the house, the family, the instrument, from the top of the stairs.

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