I was 20 when I first told another person I’d been sexually abused as a child. My confessor is a dear friend; after nearly five decades he remains the oracle of a remarkably close circle of men forged together as American, middle-class Gen-X boys. Clem was post-high school, like me. Not yet seriously invested in […]
Among the words that have long lain in helpless exhaustion, shunned and hidden away, words that one made a mockery of oneself by using, words that were so drained of meaning that they shriveled and became ugly warnings—among these one finds the word “poet.” And any person who still took up the activity of writing, […]
Motivos Magazine and NKCDC teamed up to surprise Brigitte Zigglih and Eliot Olaya with public displays of their poetry. A poem by Brigitte Zigglih, Junior at Girard College, called “My Work Is Not Yet Done”, is seen at a bus stop along Frankfort Avenue and Palmer Street in Philadelphia, Pa., Thursday, Sept., 29, 2022.Read more […]
‘This programme is an act of defiance, a challenge to those who would curtail free expression and the tolerant exchange of ideas, and a catalyst for global change’. As Ukraine’s sportsmen and women have already demonstrated over the past seven months with their inspirational performances at various international events, there’s more than one way to […]
author 2.jpeg FLEMINGTON, NJ – A 14-year resident of Flemington has released her first published book, a rom-com and mystery mashup inspired by her work as a lawyer. Monica Hoopes published “Seriously Murder,” a story about two recent law school graduates who bungled their way through their first murder case and met a crazy cast […]
Culture The decommissioned Wylfa nuclear power station on Anglesey. Photo by rodtuk is marked with CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Philippa Holloway I’m a firm believer that writing comes from place. Stories arise from characters who are somewhere, stories involve events that occur somewhere, writers create a somewhere on the page into which the reader can step, […]
The Lewes Public Library Spoken Word Society invites participants for an eight-week Poe on Stage writing and performance seminar to be held from noon to 2 p.m., starting Saturday, Oct. 15, at the library, 111 Adams Ave., Lewes. The unique series offers participants an opportunity to explore their artistic selves from within the creative process […]
MBW’s World’s Greatest Songwriters series celebrates the pop composers behind the globe’s biggest hits. In this edition, we meet Per Gessle, one half of Sweden’s second most successful band of all time, Roxette, and the writer behind all their biggest hits. World’s Greatest Songwriters is supported by AMRA – the global digital music collection society […]
Media What inspired you to become a writer? I always wanted to be a writer, ever since I wrote my first six-page book, The Deer, in third grade—which I illustrated with a ballpoint pen and stapled together. Though I didn’t have the confidence to become a writer until I moved to Thailand in 1989 and, […]
I’ll admit it – I’m a daydreamer. I often find myself checking out of reality and mentally crafting scenes for my stories throughout the day. I usually let these ideas simmer and develop like hot soup in a slow-cooker, throwing in more ingredients as they come to mind. However, as a full-time student, I don’t […]
