sometimes we just need to get outside. stop and smell the roses, lillies, honeysuckle. unplug and put our phone on airplane mode. tuck a journal in our back pocket and tuck a pencil behind our ear. you never know when inspiration is going to strike.

BOOK REVIEW: Registers of Illuminated Villages by Tarfia Faizullah
Tarfia Faizullah is a master of surprise with labyrinthine content and unique turns of line in her recent work: Registers of Illuminated Villages from Graywolf Press. I was drawn to