Adrift
Sara E. Solberg reflects on the refugee crisis.
Sara E. Solberg reflects on the refugee crisis.
The poet Libby Swope Wiersema writes on grief and healing.
I grew up in a mile-square beachfront town sixty miles south of New York City. From the time I was six years old, when my family left its North Jersey urban roots, every summer day was spent on the beach. When my sister and I were old enough, we peddled there on our bikes to […]
In this poem, Misty Anne Winzenried describes a visit to the beach—the children playing in the surf, the endless expanse of sea and sky, the surprises of tide pools—and invites readers to “lick / memories from their fingers” as they recall their own life lessons at the ocean.