by Stephen Wing | May 1, 2026 | Blog, Nature, Poetry
A visitor arriving on Earth from any other planet would be immediately struck by the sheer beauty and abundance of this place we natives take for granted. Pure air to breathe. Sweet water to drink – or dive right into. A perfect temperature range to sustain life....
by Stephen Wing | Apr 1, 2026 | Blog, Nature
Once upon a time there was a king so rich that he refused to eat from the same dish twice. His servants brought each new delicacy to the royal table on a freshly manufactured plate, and served each cup of mead in a brand-new chalice, straight from the box. Out in his...
by Stephen Wing | Feb 25, 2026 | Blog
After centuries of sci-fi visions and nightmares, sightings and speculations, mysterious abductions, scientific scrutiny of the heavens, top-secret government investigations, cover-ups and conspiracy theories, an alien intelligence has finally arrived on Planet...
by Stephen Wing | Jan 1, 2026 | Blog
Besides its imaginative functions, political poetry plays another essential role usually considered the antithesis of imagination: documentation. The narrative we’ve been fed since childhood has been shaped by the patriotic whitewashing of textbooks and the hometown...
by Stephen Wing | Jun 29, 2025 | Blog
So what’s the point of belonging to something that includes everyone with a bellybutton? Every summer several thousand folks converge in a National Forest somewhere in the United States to answer that question for themselves. At the end of an hour’s hike into the...
by Stephen Wing | Jun 1, 2025 | Blog
Dear reader: Last week I rented a janitor’s uniform and rolled a recycling bin into the editorial office of a large, left-leaning publication (which will go unnamed if they meet the deadline on my ransom note). I pushed my broom around the floor, collecting discarded...
