August 1-8, 2016

On fatherhood, selective service and a space for nonviolence

'Hystopia,' by David Means

'13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty,' by Mario Marazziti

'Purity,' by Jonathan Franzen

"In short, it is the story of a media manipulator who strove to turn his celebrity into elective office. Draw what parallels you may."

A flicker in the woodsyet enduring as those trees.This twice-spawned leafmakes you believe youcan almost catch lightin your hands. Whatever rootit takes depends on what footbecomes a flower. Brief bliss, whose moth life holdsclose to the flame, this little wormwith wings, so that time may showu

“I waited patiently for the Lord; he heard my cry”