Back at You by Fleta Vincent “Stop hollering at me!” his voice roars like thunder from the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro. “I’m not hollering at you,” I say up from the valley below, “I just want to know why you waited until the last minute to do your science project!” He kicks the […]
Content: In this episode, we talk with poet and novelist Hala Alyan. Cast Hosted by Dean Karpowicz with Kelsey Hoff and Destiny Crespo. About Hala Alyan Hala Alyan is a Palestinian American writer and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Guernica and elsewhere. Her poetry collections have won the Arab […]
Story Time Ms. Lee sat in a chair in the children’s section of the library. She had arranged third and fourth graders in a circle around her and was reading to them from a collection of nineteenth century children’s tales. “ ‘If you wet the bed again’,” Ms. Lee read in a cheery, singsong voice, […]
Herbert feared the intense pounding in his heart would explode from his emaciated chest onto the frozen field of his escape. The buckets of snow pouring from the black heavens were aiding his cause by covering his foot prints. This was the night he had waited for, a moonless sky, with weather projected to become […]