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Winter 2025 Cover with photo by Lys Arango of 3 coal miners sitting on a bench during lunch

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The Art of Watching
… The Art of Watching Looking at Animals Looking at Us Early in January, a few days into the New … in mid-March, early January belonged to a past life. The recommendation came during my first virtual cocktail hour, … King , it’s wild, we’re loving it. The next day a second recommendation appended one of many check-in emails, then a …
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Little Seed
… after the presentation. I told her that a plant I loved had died. When I told her I was there so that I could learn what … air— soothing me, frustrating me. I felt I needed it, but I also resented its presence. I left my job, I left the old … the petiole, a blade . If you include the petiole, it becomes a frond . The brown wisps sweeping the floor beneath …
Virginia and England
… Horizons. By Geoffrey Johnson. London: The C. W. Daniel Company. 5 s. In “Summer Goes On,” by Lawrence Lee, there … her like a hind; And down the world the hunt shall never die. The second poem mentioned above, contains a touch of … through the frost toward the blaze in mine host’s parlor; also “The Bakery Yard,” with one-legged George, the …
Backgrounds of Sorrow
… Edited by Rebecca West. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $2.00. The uncritical popular idea of Carl Sandburg … the fence. The palings are made of iron bars with steel points that can stab the life out of any man who falls … whimsical tales for children, made up, as his favorite audience would say. “out of his own head,” and populated by …
Civil Liberties in the South
… believes “that the causes of industrial conflict are becoming more acute, and that in the South especially, … Even the field of race relations appears to yield fewer denials of individual constitutional prerogatives. When the … preceding year, all four were cited because of the violence committed within their boundaries against representatives of …
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Labor
… a wheeled suitcase nipping at her heels, shoulder-slung briefcase heavy with the 8.5” × 11” excelsior of a vague … like someone looking into the face of a mortally wounded soldier and seeing only his acne. The instructor flipped on the … She thought of the birth but was not frightened. 116-126 By Maggie Shipstead …
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