Local Porch in NOVA: The Tech Exit with Clare Morell Ben Christenson - April 25, 2025 Join Ben Christenson and others for a discussion with Clare Morell. In Praise of “Old” Reid Makowsky - March 28, 2025 S
The conference on the front porch Potential dates to be announced early 2025! “I can’t remember a more life-changing weekend. the conference on the front porch hammered home the importance of connection and storytelling … days of meeting new friends, reconnecting with old ones and reminding ...
The top three essays will be published at Front Porch Republic, and the authors will receive a one-year subscription toLocal Cultureand free registration for the FPR 2025 Conference. The author of the top essay will also receive $500.
Every time I walk Soundside Park, I keep my eyes peeled! And so, I present you with this tiny book YES WE MADE A REAL BOOK that was so much fun to make and while it won’t set the literary world on fire-if it prompts YOU to create something just for the sake of creating-w...
Her essays have appeared in Literary Arts Review, Author Magazine, Mothering, Moxie: For Women Who Dare, Iris: A Journal about Women, and on WAMC: Northeast Public Radio. Alyssa has taught classes in writing, literature, and theater at the University at Albany, the College of St. Rose, ...
I still can be. Maybe my homecoming of the imagination can arrive through my life as a reader. An imaginative immersion in the literature of my home state wasn’t part of my education so far, but it could be still. Accordingly, I have plans to read deeply in literary work that has em...
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in the world. I sit on my porch above the river that flows muddy and slow along the feet of the trees. I hear the voices of the wren and the yellow-throated warbler whose songs pass near the windows and over the roof. In my house my daughter learns the womanhood ...
This process exemplifies our recurrent need to think about what we want out of education. Every educational system cultivates students. On the Mars Hill Audio Journal, Ken Myers likes to say, “There is no epistemological Switzerland.” The same is true of education. There is no pedagogical ...
Whatever else might be said of Dr. Panichas’sModern Age, this much is certainly true: he ensured that the journal remained a bastion of traditionalist conservative inquiry, analysis, and belles-lettres. The neoconservatives never much impressed Dr. George A. Panichas, not because he wasn’t...