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Mark Hiskes

Poetry

It’s About Us

It’s about us which is an empathy pronoun, replacing her and him and you and it and, praise the Lord, other.

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A Word to Gatekeepers

Alice Walker’s short story “The Welcome Table” introduces an old, poor Black woman in the South, who, one Sunday, decides to worship at the church

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The Other Eden: A Novel

Every now and then a novelist comes along whose unique voice grips us from the first page—Cormac McCarthy, Marilynne Robinson, Brian Doyle come quickly to

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The River We Remember

During my last year of teaching, I read William Kent Krueger’s This Tender Land with my sophomore American Literature students. It was, as the author

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Afraid to Teach

I won’t forget that first week of remote teaching during the early days of the pandemic. Behind closed doors, I spoke into my laptop from

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