December 2013 
Stevie Smith's Facebook Problem
Martha Cooley
Stevie Smith is a slippery, contradictory figure. Impatient with labels and canny in self-presentation, she liked throwing her audience off the scent and was adroit at doing so.
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Revolutionary Shoes: On Activism & Art An Interview with Diane Lefer
Natasha Sajé
For the longest time I balanced on a seesaw. Creative work would predominate. Then social justice work. I tried to keep them separate.
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Stephen Dunn, the Ice Traveler, & the Other
Andrea Hollander
He is a kind of philosopher poet whose poems—like the philosophical statements by bona fide philosophers—are sometimes composed of mostly abstract language and relatively few images.
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Mindfulness and Memoir
Julie Wittes Schlack
As I have concurrently studied the practice and philosophy of Mindfulness Meditation and the discipline and great exemplars of memoir, I have been struck by the similarities in the two processes and in their inherent philosophical and psychological challenges.
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I Set Out to See if I Could Breathe on my Own: An Interview with Linda Gregerson
Brian Brodeur
As to technologies of production: I used to have something of a fetish relationship with my pencil and my yellow legal pad—everything happened in longhand first. In smudged, erasable, half-illegible longhand—preserving in my mind some crucial malleability.
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The Last Word: My Listening Was Mumbling
Bob Hicok
I don’t know why I write, but I assume that most of why anything happens is best thought of as an accident.
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Icons of the Everyday: Postcard Sleight of Hand & the Short Story
Stephanie Coyne DeGhett
Mass-produced, ubiquitous, with us now for over a century, the postcard, with its low-key genius for expanding and elaborating story, slips into fiction as unobtrusively as a bookmark into a book.
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