Free Write

Slipping into my runners, I tie them firmly but not too tight. I step out of the apartment and fumble with the keys as I lock the door. I run down the six stairs to the foyer. After yanking the door open, I step out, dancing down those five steps. I almost expected to hear a booming radio voice penetrating all the clamour around me…

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Word Works: Ellen Bass on Controlled Chaos

Hugo House published on January 5, 2017 Co-presented by LiTFUSE A certain kind of poem, story, or essay reaches out a long arm and sweeps disparate, unexpected things into its net. It scoops in a great deal of material that is more or less obviously related. It doesn’t hug the shore. It doesn’t walk a narrow line. It retains a kind of wildness. It can…

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