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Posted By Vince Grzegorekvgrzegorek@clevescene.com> on Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 11:20 AM click to enlarge Photo by Karin McKenna *** Megan Neville (she/her) is an educator and writer. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Academy of American Poets (Poets.org), Cherry Tree, Pleiades, wildness, Cream City Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Boiler, McSweeney's, Lunch Ticket, Gordon Square Revi...

For-profit publishers solicit more grants and donors, while nonprofits look for more earned revenues; DEI-led startups get funding and support 2020 was a very bad year for local businesses in America during the COVID-19 pandemic. By July, more than 420,000 small businesses across the country had closed permanently, according to Stephen Hamilton, an assistant professor of economics at George Washington University. Hamilton believes that 13% of U.S. restaurants permanently closed, leaving 1.4 million people unemployed. Meanwhile, local publishers had more news than ever to cover, with a lot les...

Trauma has a way of crystallizing what's important in life. Last week, one of my dearest friends was hospitalized for five days battling complications from the COVID-19 virus. I watched my 32-year-old friend transform; days spent teaching, woodworking and playing with his young son are now filled with canes, oxygen tanks and getting winded from a 10-step walk to the bathroom. It was five days of fear, learning medical jargon and caring way more about oxygen levels than I ever thought I would. Five days of tears and running errands and late-night text messages as a poor substitute for hugs and...