• Image of the sky over a field, just as dawn begins to ripen. TEXT: The Pre-Dawn Muse Blues - Ken Gosse - Poetry

    The Pre-Dawn Muse Blues

    The pre-dawn hunt and peck is on, although conclusions seem forgone. Every muse tries to contuse my fingertips and to confuse the digits stretching from my palms…

  • A collage of the 5 tv show covers. homage episodes Text: Televsions Influence: 5 more awesome homage episodes, deep dive, gretchen wallet

    Television’s Influence: 5 More Awesome TV Homage Episodes

    Homage and parody allow us to interpret our world in new and exciting ways. They keep our experiences fresh, and offer us that chance to sit back and take life a little less seriously.

  • Three digital movie posters for Green Book stand side by side against a soft blue sky background, each showing Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali in a teal car. green book Text: A Movie Review, Green Book, Karrie Wortner.

    Green Book: A Movie Review

    Green Book is one of those films that begins with a light touch and then quietly reveals how heavy it really is. The film does not try to be a sweeping history lesson. It is warm and funny, but is also based on a true story set in the United States during the 1960s…

  • Woman standing in the rain, head lifted heavenward as she inhales the healing moment. TEXT: Runs Deep - Joanne Macias - Poetry

    Runs Deep

    The tears of one that fell hard, hoping to replace the years of drought, knowing it won’t break the surface…

  • A cat looking out of a window into the winter snow. Hateful Text: Hateful, Poetry, Glemis Moore

    Hateful

    It was not the world I could not face, for I loved its wildness. It was simply people who scared me.

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