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Nicki Pappas

Writing in a Crisis

Apr 20, 2020

TW Contributors Respond to the Global Pandemic

It makes no sense to close yourself off from others now. I receive a joke, laugh my head off, pass it on. If it's not in a language that the other person knows, I translate it.

Writing and Faith, Illness, Transitions | Read More

Ink Love

Dec 16, 2019

Essay by Mandy Shunnarah

Tattoos are the promises we make to ourselves.

Why I Write, Writer's Life, Transitions | Read More

Western PA Air and Water Ballet

Nov 25, 2019

Poems by Terry Dawson

The Kumbh Mela never comes to Pittsburgh: no one mistakes the Allegheny for the Ganges.

Writing and Faith, Featured Poetry, Transitions | Read More

Today in 7th Period

Nov 11, 2019

Poem by Steve Henn

What had started as an attempt at witty improv had grown strange, weird and oddly gregarious.

Cartoons, Poems, TW Reading Series | Read More

Measures of Grace

Mar 11, 2019

by Iris Jamahl Dunkle

The first days after you died sunk like stones.

Writing and Faith, Poems | Read More