Aidan Ryan 6/19/25 Aidan Ryan 6/19/25

arc iron

To watch forge-yellow metal curl and flatten under a simple hammer is to understand why our ancestors worshipped blacksmiths…

Joyce Carol Oates 6/19/25 Joyce Carol Oates 6/19/25

happy chicken

I was a young chicken less than a year old at this time in the little girl’s life when she hadn’t yet learned to run on plump little-girl legs without tripping and falling and gasping for breath and crying…

Kaitlin Roberts 6/19/25 Kaitlin Roberts 6/19/25

michael van valkenburgh

Van Valkenburgh has a presence that suggests he’s never quite at rest, always in motion–even while sitting down…

Jeff Miers 6/19/25 Jeff Miers 6/19/25

leecia eve

Leecia recalls with clarity how she understood, at just seven years old, her father’s acceptance of Attica inmates’ request that he and others come to the facility to observe and negotiate…

Jesse Mank 6/19/25 Jesse Mank 6/19/25

bob the blob

I’m neither garbage nor special garbage but a puny human with human-sized desires that sometimes get expressed in stupid human ways…

Canese Jarboe 6/19/25 Canese Jarboe 6/19/25

poetry: a dowsing rod for alive

Jarboe joins the tradition of poets seeking correspondences between person and place, voice and inheritance…

Jeff Miers 6/19/25 Jeff Miers 6/19/25

pushing boundaries: dr. brian betts

Dr. Brian Betts found himself intrigued from an early age about what he calls “life on the other side of the stethoscope”…

Thomas Yorty 6/18/25 Thomas Yorty 6/18/25

the best church choir east of the mississippi

Calling attention to that thin place where heaven and earth touch or where the sacred and secular come together is what the church is called to do in every generation…

Kaitlin Roberts 6/18/25 Kaitlin Roberts 6/18/25

please keep on the grass

The idea that we’re not allowed to be a part of nature, that we’re not allowed to touch grass, divides us from our environments and ourselves…

Theodora Dellas 6/18/25 Theodora Dellas 6/18/25

between the basswoods

Long before any concrete grain elevator stood on the south shore of the Buffalo River, the land there was called Došyowëh…

Aidan Ryan 6/18/25 Aidan Ryan 6/18/25

tangents

Artistic community meant little to me when I first started to take writing seriously…

Joyce Carol Oates 6/18/25 Joyce Carol Oates 6/18/25

poetry: the miraculous birth

This is the season of waiting and of expectation…

Jeff Miers 6/18/25 Jeff Miers 6/18/25

the music of medicine: dr. shernan holtan

It’s been a long road for Shernan Holtan–one that leads from the cornfields of the American Midwest to the chilly climes of Minnesota and to Buffalo…

Joe Lin-Hill 6/18/25 Joe Lin-Hill 6/18/25

william maggio

When William C. Maggio retired in 1995 from a thirty-six-year career teaching fine art to high school students, his mission was clear…

Theodora Dellas 6/18/25 Theodora Dellas 6/18/25

in relief: thomas suchy’s pain medicine

A different doctor, with the kind of training and experience Suchy has, might be inclined to take their skills beyond the small communities that raised them…