USING THE EVIL WORD ON ANIMALS, by Brian Griffith.
In which our favorite independent historian shares some of his most recent thoughts on culture and how its words about animals affect it and us…
FIRST WORDS, by Danbert Nobacon.
In which one of our favorite anarchists (fortunately we know a lot of them) considers how it all began…
AMBITION, by Marie Davis & Margaret Hultz.
“Green” is a pretty good word, we agree…
WOULD, WILL, by Marissa Bell Toffoli.
Speaking of pretty good words…
LET THEM HOWL, by Alexandra Kitty.
The words of EAP’s favorite detective, a woman with a clarity of vision in a world gone mad, who loves her garden and her cats more than she loves fame and fortune (though she manages some of those, too)…
GROWL AND COO, by David D. Horowitz.
Speaking of howling…
SOME BUMS, by Seth Turman.
Sometimes the word in the title doesn’t refer to the obvious candidate…
TISSIE & BABE: THE FEAR OF WORDS, by Alena Deerwater.
And then there are those words that families dare not speak…
WORK, by Deb Baker.
And those of the mothers that do…
MATER DOLOROSA, by Paul Rogov.
More words about mothers…one mother in particular…
HOUSE OF DUALITY, by Regina Stribling.
Words can battle it out, or they can try…partnership…
THE KOI POND, by Kelsey Liu.
And then there are the parents’ words from the child’s point of view…
THE GREAT DARKNESS OF TUNKASILA, by Hunter Liguore.
Not to mention, the words of ancient grandmothers...
BEING A FOOL FOR GOD, by Robert Markland Smith.
The words of God mean different things to different people…
KISSING THE MESSIAH, by Rena Rossner.
For instance…
IT’S DA SHOOZ, by Randy Floyd.
Words mean something different to grandfathers, too, especially if grandfather is a poet…
ON EPIGRAMS: A POSITIVE NOTE, by Amber Koneval.
And another meaning entirely if the poet is a teenager…
BOOKS, by Asia Abenna Dubicki Wild (age 9).
Or even younger still…
IF A PICTURE’S WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS, WHAT’RE A THOUSAND WORDS WORTH?, by Harvey Lillywhite.
We like it when a poet’s words turn to prose…
WORDS OF THE STORM, by Julie Prince.
Or a prose writer’s words sound like poetry…
A MIGHTY WOMAN WITH A TORCH, by Kenneth Womack.
And we always like words about a woman who walks right into the storm, protecting the frailer ones behind her…
NUTRITION IN THREE WORDS, by Matt Stone.
Finally, we REALLY like those writers who set out to protect their readers from having autonomy over their own bodies stolen by people trying to make a buck…thanks for that, Matt…
THE TOD BLOG hitches some reindeer to the sleigh and sets out into the starry winter dark…JAM TODAY makes a new friend and roasts some vegetables on another snowy night…
This month’s picture is by EAP’s own ALEX COX…and just the like the first word on the road to heaven might be…
Next issue is 1 April, and it’s the SPRING 2013: GROWING UP issue…and think of all the things that do grow up in the spring…contributions by 1 March, please…
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