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This month, my Call to Action is simple and heartfelt: I’d like you to read the last published piece of writing by Sustaining Circle member Penelope Boyer, who passed away last month from cancer. [...]

By the time you read this blog post, our trunk will have already been packed with cold-weather gear, as we headed out for a long weekend of camping in Great Smokies National Park. The maple trees [...]

This month, I’d like to call everyone’s attention to the harm that cancel culture (closely related to the right to free speech) can have on those inside our field–yes, writers you and I both [...]

Next week marks the one year anniversary of Hurricane Helene, which we now know was the deadliest hurricane to make landfall since Katrina (2005). Tearing across more than 500 miles of land in [...]

Were you outraged when President Trump “renamed” the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and Denali to Mt. McKinley? Usurpuring language gets to the core of culture-grabbing and erasure, and [...]

Eighteen years ago I listened to the poet Marvin Bell improvise verse over the top of live cello music, in the grand ballroom of a hotel in gray, sopping Seaside, Oregon. It was my first winter [...]

My friends, where do we begin? I hope that if you’re reading this, you were able to protest earlier this month for NO KINGS DAY. We have to keep showing up however we can, even if we doubt that [...]

I hope if you are reading this you have great summer reads picked out, an ecologically diverse window view (or plans to visit such a place!), and some kind of secret that you are carrying into [...]

According to Publishers Weekly, “On May 2 the National Endowment for the Arts terminated or rescinded grants already awarded in the 2025 fiscal year to a number of cultural institutions, [...]

Well, a black-bear cub opened the back passenger door of my car this month and climbed in. From the paw prints and black hairs on the headliner, I can tell it also climbed up front and even [...]