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1 week ago | matternews.org | Jack Shuler

I always go back to the list. The one I keep on a Post-it note in my office. It’s behind my computer, stuck to a wall littered with Post-its and calendars and my children’s artwork: a yellow Post-it with the names of people I know who have died of an overdose in recent years.  I placed it there as a reminder that I write about real human beings.

1 week ago | matternews.org | Andy Downing

There exists in some corners of the poetry world a belief that the practice is deeply isolating and insular, requiring long hours spent curled alone around a notebook. And the Columbus poet Sayuri Matsuura Ayers said there was a point in time early in her writing career when she believed this to be the case.

1 week ago | matternews.org | Andy Downing

Seven Stories Press publisher Dan Simon joined Two Dollar Radio publisher Eric Obenauf in announcing today that Seven Stories had acquired the Columbus-based independent Two Dollar Radio. With the deal, the financial terms of which were not disclosed, Obenauf will remain as Two Dollar’s publisher and editorial director, while his spouse, Eliza Wood-Obenauf, will continue as consulting editor.

1 week ago | matternews.org | Andy Downing

“Almostbetter,” the title track and album-closing song on the new full-length from Contraceptives, released in early April, plays as something of a break in the weather in the wake of a long, tumultuous storm.

1 week ago | matternews.org | Jack Shuler

This article is provided by TheReportingProject.org, the nonprofit news organization of Denison University’s Journalism program, which is supported by generous donations from readers. Sign up for The Reporting Project newsletter here. Every Thursday afternoon at a small storefront on Detroit Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, the staff at Thrive for Change hands out naloxone and safe use supplies to the mostly low-income and often unhoused population who walks through the door.