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Many of us have experienced the unsettling circumstance of living in the shadow of someone else for various reasons.

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There is still plenty to get used to about marijuana being legal, like seeing people smoking joints on a stroll.

By the canal, I felt an overwhelming and visceral sense that I had stumbled upon the place where a man had raped me at knifepoint forty years earlier.

In his debut 'My Father's Shadow,' playing at Cannes Film Festival, director Akinola Davies Jr. announces himself as a major talent.

Here’s a poem about patience, about self-control, about the need to conserve your energy and constrain your desire. Fittingly enough, it’s a proper old-school sonnet, orderly and elegant: 14 ...

Former MU professor Scott Cairns has kindled the warm, baritone fires of poetry for decades. His newest collection more explicitly honors the air around him.

I wrote a poem similar to Robert Louis Stevenson’s “My Shadow” about my cancer diagnosis.