” . . . If you are planning your next trip abroad, you might want to check out what bugs live there. If you travel to Argentina, for example, watch out for assassin bugs. They bite you in the night, use your skin for a latrine and spread a disease called chagas to many of …
For the last ten years, the editors at Blue Begonia Press in Yakima, WA, have kept a poetry pole in the press’s front yard. Passersby press their poems to it with colored pushpins, and the press also receives poems by mail from all over the world. Jim Bodeen, the press’s resident poet and editor, describes …
The way Inklings Bookshop owner Susan Richmond tells it, it sounds like a bookish child’s fantasy. As a four-year-old, she would cruise the aisles of an empty library after hours, sliding out books and carefully leaving a space so she’d know where to re-shelve them. It’s not fiction, though. Richmond’s mother had taken a part-time …
