Writer: Eric Starkey
Eric Starkey is Co-Executive Director of The Silence Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and teaching the contemplative arts. He’s recently retired from co-owning a
May 1, 2026
Eric Starkey is Co-Executive Director of The Silence Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and teaching the contemplative arts. He’s recently retired from co-owning a
Charmian Dewey is a uniquely self-made woman. Trained as a nurse she joined the Peace Corps in Ethiopia in 1972 before returning to Michigan for
Catherine Maryse Anderson is a poet, essayist, playwright, performer, and longtime educator. Her work bubbles up around themes of grief, intimacy, lineage, queer identity, and mother(ing).
by Nancy Ancowitz I don’t speak until I trust the words. I hold back. I edit myself. I miss my moment. I stay quiet even
Christmas 2025 Westport Connecticut Liminal weather this week snow rain, sleet snow again quickly melting into clement bare soft ground a traveling mercy for getting
THIS AMERICA – Katherine Burger I don’t have to tell you how bad thing are here in America – the escala9ng and terrifying insults to
Dwinelle Hall Take 3 for Writers’ Resistance at Memoir Church In the 80s and 90s, I was working full time to study, expose, and organize
by Lisa Stathoplos It gets pretty dark, I’m not gonna lie. Inside and out. Lights blaze but, it’s still dark. “It’s always darkest before the
a collaboration with Jeanne Drevas and Suze Allen Painting by Jeanne Drevas Poem excerpt by Suze from her poem, How I Will Spend Today, in
by Suze Allen 1.20.2025 I will spend today with the poets, philosophers and sages Let their wise and soulful words knead the woe from my
by suze allen Fell into a saturnine ravine yesterday afternoon picked up a paper and fell off the wagon Read a little Just a finger
by Dewey Davis-Thompson I’ll admit I was naive and unprepared, both about Hurricane Helene and being a supernumerary in the opera Samson and Delilah. So
by Jeanne Drevas It’s coming to the end of my time here. It’s now or never. I steer low rental car aiming for the Hazel River, so
CATHARINE H. MURRAY, author of Now You See the Sky (Akashic Books, 2018) inspires audiences with her personal story of loss and transformation and encourages others to