by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
Anti-elitism is ingrained in us, but we shouldn’t misuse that. Gig Harbor, Wash. “Elitist.” What more powerful epithet can one politician fling at another? To suggest, in the US, that your opponent is more aristocrat than common man, that he’s...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Excerpt
In a tough Inaugural Address that served as a set of marching orders, President Barack Obama painted the starkness of our historical moment—the “raging storms” of economic crisis, two wars, national decline—and laid blame all around: on the Bush...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Essay
“Estuary,” collage, by Barbara Lee Smith Nature. Once upon a time, artists and poets contemplated Nature as one of the eternal verities, along with Life, Death, Love. In modern times, the artist’s attention has been diverted to the disjunctions of the...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Review
Review of If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence, and Spirit, by Brenda Ueland (Graywolf Press). The following is an imagined interview with Brenda Ueland (1891-1985), a writer and teacher, written by Carla Seaquist upon reading the above title, first...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Review
Depleted by minimalism? Freaked for our future by the literary Brat Pack? Yearning for another feisty female voice? Meet Lucille Odom, 17, narrator of Josephine Humphreys’ second novel, Rich in Love, and direct descendant of Eudora Welty’s narrator in Why I Live at...
