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Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a positive voice raised against today’s doomsday hand wringing. Krista...

A poet yearns for a place where winter meets the senses, where sadness can find expression on an icy day, where solitude is met with empty fields of snow.

As the earth’s temperature rises, a poet considers what should be done. His daughter plunges into fever. He does everything he can.

As the earth’s temperature rises, a poet considers what should be done. His daughter plunges into fever. He does everything he can.

Stargazing on a December morning, a poet is torn between the endless universe and the electric beat of hearts: his own, and that of other beasts.

A fire alarm in the middle of the night causes students of a Yeshiva to re-evaluate their imagination of where God dwells.

A conversation between two people in a taxi — the driver had fought a war in the country of the passenger. Should they keep talking?

A poet finds solace in a church where the empty space of a building helps her recognize the empty space she’s feeling.

A poem that’s a song of praise, lament, and petition: praise for the sea’s animals, lament at their exploitation, and petition for forgiveness and change.

Is a person who returns to a place of exile a foreigner? Or a local? Or something in between? A poem about an encounter between two Armenian women.