For the overwhelming majority of people, running transcends identity. The point of competing in a road race like a 5K or ...

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It has published on a range of topics that perhaps seemed controversial to someone at some time (specifically, academics in the early 2020s) but certainly not to the broader culture in 2025.” T he ...

Katie Kenney is a recent graduate of University of Denver’s Publishing Institute and received her MFA in Creative Writing ...

As the passing pumpkin moon. Like a dream so phenomenal, like a diamond glows. Melancholic sense grows. Sarah Samarbaf is a poet with a background in performing arts.

“Yet these walls sound with echoes of the past,/With whispered prayers which linger in the air/And animate this space – still holding fast:/A shelter from the passing world’s despair.” A shelter from ...

I. blows its whistle below the lumberyard. since a big company bought its name. dryer crease, crossing limbs. II. asks homes ...

Johnny Payne is the arts editor at Merion West. Johnny is a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. He has worked extensively in Latin American Studies, especially literature under dictatorship and ...

“No one assigns homework./No one expects anyone to do anything./Disappoint, like ill-fitting pants,/can chafe you to death.” Tension begins in the parking lot.