Essays & Criticism Archives

Poets in the Machine

Why does the literary world still hold online writing at arm’s length?

The ride technology at amusement parks has become more sophisticated. For ride-goers prone to motion sickness, the outcome can be messy.

On teaching in a red state, the silences in our history lessons, and all I never learned about my hometown.

A journalist navigates a world forever changed by her traumatic brain injury.

Language lessons with an extraordinary ape.

She will grow up and leave me and yet never leave me; she will be mine forever, a being I shaped.

Crows become familiars for a writer living on the surface of a changing city.

Chatrooms taught me everything I needed to know about what real people were like before I had to grow up and become one of them.

You made a fool of the words “feminine” and “masculine” — you were neither, you were both.

The road map to becoming enough.