By Michael Kaufman
He said he was making a documentary movie about Muhammad Ali. I signed a release for which William Greaves paid me the token sum of a dollar.

By Carrie Jacobson
The academic year pulls at me more strongly than the seasons, the calendar year, the salty tug of the moon.

By Bob Gaydos
Where have you been America? The militarization of police forces has been going on for years.

By Jeffrey Page
Oh, how could I be so cynical?

By Gretchen Gibbs
I was never close to Catherine, who was too self-centered and childish to be a good mother to my former spouse.

By Carrie Jacobson
A week and a half ago, we had to euthanize our old Samoyed, Sam.

By Jeffrey Page
There’s a certain purity to be found in minor league baseball that once existed in the bigs, but doesn’t much anymore.

By Gretchen Gibbs
Once, when I asked him about his childhood, Daddy said, “We were poor,” as though that said it all.

Crape myrtles bloom for 100 days down here in the South, bringing color to yards and lawns and pretty much everywhere.

August is upon us, and with the change of seasons comes a change in my painting.