Archive - Truth & Dare: Writing and Artistic Gesture in the World

That is a Really Big Leaf, the Man Said

as he passed. I looked up from where I knelt and said, Yes it is.

Dec 10 •

November 2024

Whereas the World is a House on Fire

A Proclamation for Peace by Kim Stafford, and how to find refuge in words

Nov 4 •

October 2024

Just to be Among the Breathing, Reeling of the World

Art first, ask questions later

Oct 7 •

September 2024

Nobody Ever Asked You to Write

Said the writer Raymond Carver to my friend Martha. Plus: questions of containment and fine new books by Chris LaTray, Martha Gies and Arron Magar

Sep 15 •

August 2024

So This is a River

Stupid tragedies, one fresh, the other a year old, plus: a bird rocks out, and the river does its thing

Aug 7 •

July 2024

Not That Cruel, and Not That Unusual

On: Another bummer Supreme Court decision / Art meets shabby / An Opinion piece / Last Call to apply for the Atheneum

Jul 7 •

June 2024

As For Me, I Have Stopped to Watch

On the writer Raymond Carver, the musician Prince, stealthily applied stickers and poetry out the sunroof of a car

Jun 15 •

May 2024

The Not-Knowing is Crucial to Art

Plus: A postcard from Lynda J. Barry and upcoming events in Portland and Clatskanie

May 7 •

April 2024

I Want to See That White Bear, I Want to Climb Inside the Mysteries

& Writing Letters in April

Apr 8 •

March 2024

February 2024

The Odes of March

On: my smashed hand, an epic basketball move & an invitation to write

Feb 9 •

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