Elizabeth Ann Dark is a writer from Nashville, Tennessee. Currently she lives in Mount Vernon, Ohio where she works at Paragraphs Bookstore and teaches writing courses at Mount Vernon Nazarene Univers
“There are the stars—doing their old, old criss-cross journeys in the sky…this
one is straining away, straining away all the time to make something of itself.
The strain’s so bad
Regardless of the course title, I try to read a poem aloud at the beginning of
every class I teach. Some of my college freshmen love this, but most probably
don’t. Like
“This land doesn’t look like tomorrow.”
That was my six-year-old daughter Mae’s comment when we walked over the bridge
into Disney World’s Tomorrowland, with all of its planetary balls attached
Andrew Hendrixson is a visual artist whose work has been shown in galleries from
New York City to Gainesville, Florida, Cincinnati, Ohio to Lubbock, Texas. Since
receiving his MFA from the University of