INTRODUCTION

Dara-Lyn Shrager and Rachel Marie Patterson

Reading Mary Oliver’s ‘White Owl Flies In and Out of the Field’ At My Mother’s Funeral

Ronda Piszk Broatch; artwork by Ronda Piszk Broatch

Metamorphosis

Will Cordeiro; artwork by Joshua M. Cordeiro

Swamped

Diane DeCillis; artwork by A. Graham Brown

Dementia Walks Into A Bar

Diane DeCillis; artwork by John Margolies

Some People Eat To Live; Some People Live To Eat

Jeremy Radin; artwork by John Margolies

As I Apologize Again

Samantha DeFlitch; artwork courtesy of the Library of Congress

The Gallery of Dangerous Ideas, Perpetually Open

Angela Maria Spring; artwork by Gail Spaien

Why I Won’t Use The Term

Sonia Greenfield; artwork courtesy of the Library of Congress

Talking Like This

Kathryn Hunt; artwork by Bethany Rowland

Splinter

Kim Stoll; artwork courtesy of the Getty Open Content Project

Dior , Homie

Michael Chang; artwork by Maiko Kikuchi

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