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by Jim HarrisonRumi advised me to keep my spiritup in the branches of a tree and not peekout too far, so I keep mine in the very tallwillows along the…

No longer will I swallow hard boiledinstructions. No longer smile atpeople I’d like to bite.Today I am free.Today I am Mick Jagger’s lips.Today I am…

by Robert PackBeside the waterfall,by the lichen face of rock,you pause in pine shade to remember bluefor drawing back, and greenfor trust, replenishing…

by Henry Real BirdIn the willow windthe feeling will beginLife, liberty, and deathDemocracy in our breathBorn of the dew, and soilin the heart of our…

by Mark GibbonsRaven strutsDown the sidewalkTastingThe airShakes itsTuxedo tailDips to cleanThe cementCaws to anotherCombing the grassHop-RoamingThe…

Los Angeles Times and NPR film critic Kenneth Turan talks about and reads from his book Not To Be Missed: Fifty-Four Favorites from a Lifetime of…

In these twelve new stories of All I Want Is What You’ve Got, award-winning author Glen Chamberlain deftly writes about the fragility of small town life.…

by Richard O. MooreAfterward, you look on the world as a happy placeflush from arrival into a new land of not being in pain.Is there anything forgotten,…

David Allan Cates talks about and reads from his latest novel, Tom Connor's Gift, about which Bryan Di Salvatore writes, "Coursing between anecdote and…

by Joe WilkinsFreeze Out NotchThe breath of mountainsis dry grass and sloped fieldsof winter wheat. Their eyesare bedrock and ice.Clearwater CanyonOld men…