Lonely, But Not Alone
Finding Myself in Kristen Radtke’s "Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness"
Aarik Danielsen
Aarik Danielsen is the arts and entertainment editor at the Columbia Daily Tribune in Columbia, Missouri. He also teaches at his alma mater, the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He writes
Still Moving: An Interview with Maggie Smith
Right now, on some corner of social media, someone is sharing Maggie Smith’s
“Good Bones.” [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/good-bones] A
wildfire in 17 lines, it was named “the official
Rebellious Syntax
Everything we learn about reading guides our eye and orders our understanding:
left to right, one sentence to the next. Everything we learn about living does
the same—here is the map for
Handle With Care: Lore Ferguson Wilbert on her New Book
The body doesn’t only keep the score of trauma, as Bessel van der Kolk’s
influential work rightly asserts. Through the skin, bodies soak in sermons about
the passions of the flesh.
Strange and Holy and Rough
In a 2018 interview with poet Adrian Matejka, I floated a thought balloon to see
whether he would chase it or pop it in an instant. More an aside than a proper
question,