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Day 3: How It Came to Be that the Poet Proposed to Build a Reading Garden on the Other Side of the World [by Lisa Vihos]
Once upon a time, a group of graduate students from Malawi, Africa, came to study early grade reading instruction at Lakeland University, a small liberal arts institution nestled in the corn fields of Wisconsin.…
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Day 2: It’s Never Too Late to Meet the Goddess [by Lisa Vihos]
My room at Brigit Rest was once someone's office and it was full of books. There were books of poetry, theology, and folklore from many places around the world. I found one book with stories…
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Day 1: To Heaven and Back Again [by Lisa Vihos]
I'm in need of grounding myself this morning. This past weekend, I participated in a writers' retreat at Black Earth Institute in Black Earth, Wisconsin. Founded in 2004 by Michael McDermott and his late…
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Tales of the Nineties: Family Feuds [by Alan Ziegler]
In mid-March 1996, Erin and I whisper-argue in the bedroom while my father lies on the sofa bed in the living room watching Family Feud. I would appreciate the irony if my…
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Lisa Vihos, Guest Author July 25-29
This week we welcome back Lisa Vihos as our guest blogger. Lisa's poems have appeared in numerous journals both print and online. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, her third chapbook, This Particular Heaven,…
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Paris 2016 Catacombs Conference confirms felines for EDS role
Decision follows tests and requests from OES The catacombs of Paris are not, strictly speaking, a cemetery. They are a designated bone storage area (DBSA), a discrete recycling yard created by the ancien régime…
