In such a roundabout way do we come to a proper consideration of Osage poet Elise Paschen’s extraordinary recent poetry ...

We should think about health inequity not as differences in outcomes across categories of individuals but as structural ...

Burglaries few, kidnappings never. The Milky Way. The Big Dipper.

“Engagement is inseparable from hope and motivation. The top quartile of students most engaged in school are more than four times as likely as the least-engaged students to believe they have a great ...

“I envisioned myself old on a mountain hike/a soft breeze lifting my long white hair/I thought I’d live ‘til ninety-five” ...

Johnny Payne is the arts editor at Merion West. Johnny is a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. He has worked extensively in Latin American Studies, especially literature under dictatorship and ...

“For many who join extremist organizations, it is not the cause that looks for them. Instead, they are looking for a cause.” “Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp ...

“I swore I heard willows cry/through the zig zagged fields,/traveling through my universe/as quickly as the moon touches our light” eerie and calming as the oldest house on Main. My walk disturbed by ...

“For example, if poor children grew up in a neighborhood where 70% of their friends were wealthy, their future income on average will increase by 20%, similar to the effect of going to a four-year ...