The devil is in them—and in plenty of other pies too. A poem composed for Tuesday night’s “100 Days of Protest” reading.
On April 29, 2025, Bill participated with many other poets in 100 Days of Protest, an act of poetic resistance on Zoom. He closed his segment with a new poem called “The Details.”
Thirty-eight years have passed since I’ve been allowed to set foot in America’s neighbor to the north. I'd love to go back again, but only with a proper invitation.
A godless atheist wonders what it would mean to live in a truly Christian nation, and proposes the modest first step that would imply.
In an alternate America eerily like our own, a boys’ choir’s performance at the Inauguration portends a fascist future. Fiction for Election Day.
A limerick on the occasion of Texas governor Greg Abbott’s positive test for the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
With the president attempting to withhold funding from the World Health Organization, questions naturally arise as to where responsibility for the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus lies.
Contrary to what Morrissey would have you think, we love it when our friends become successful. It's especially sweet when that friend has been doing fantastic work in relative obscurity for a decade and a half. That's why I've long been so vocal on
The Electoral College convenes today in state capitols across the country to stamp its imprimatur on our recent, horrifying election. This antiquated, anti-democratic convocation was much on my mind two weeks ago when I returned to Chicago to appear at the 100th episode of Tuesday Funk, the long-running reading series
But Bengt Washburn is not my only comic friend you should be paying attention to. Anthony Atamanuik (perhaps best "known" as a Silent Writer on "30 Rock") is the other hardest-working man in comedy. He's been touring the country lately in the persona of
As I was working through the very final set of revisions on The Accidental Terrorist, I had to hunt down the original source of a well-known Joseph Smith quote on the topic of the accuracy of the Bible. I found what I was looking for in his History of the
And I remember standing on the wall. As they kissed, we shot over their heads. Just for one day, can't we be heroes?
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