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Lit Lovers, Rejoice: Electric Literature Moves to WordPress
Love to read and write? Explore Electric Literature, now on WordPress.
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Alt Oasis 2019 Inspiration List: 10 Entrepreneurs to Follow
These 10 speakers at the Alt Oasis conference in Palm Springs use their WordPress websites to promote their businesses and brands.
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Editors' PicksSee all
  1. The Believer Magazine

    The Believer is a bimonthly literature, arts, and culture magazine that publishes journalism, essays, interviews, comics, poetry, a symposium around a theme, and a column by Nick Hornby.
    Culture
  2. A Cup of Jo

    A Cup of Jo is the blog of Joanna Goddard, a writer with a background in women’s, lifestyle, and travel magazines. The site focuses on style, design, food, travel, relationships, and motherhood.
    Design
  3. The Girl on the Train

    Erynn Brook compiles a thread of tweets, about her encounter with an 18-year-old stranger having a seizure on the subway, into a post on her blog.
    Commentary
    Erynn Brook
    by Erynn Brook

  4. “…Larry grabbed me and asked if I would be writing about him. I told him I could if he wanted me to, but only if he wanted me to. Tears suddenly sprang to his eyes and he said, “As long as you make it beautiful. Because it was. The whole thing. Even the hard parts.”
    Death
    Adulthood is Hard
    by Taylor Scholle
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  1. 5 Tools You May Not Know About

    Here’s a look at five features you may not know existed.
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  2. Celebrating International Women’s Day: Stories By Fantastic Women

    These five excellent reads deserve your attention.

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  3. Choosing a Color Palette? It’s For the Birds (Literally!)

    Dithering over what colors to use for your new website? Take a screen break and go for a walk — nature has a beautiful selection of pre-made color palettes waiting for you.
    Design
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  2. Art
  3. How Burning Man and psychedelics led me to China

    A personal comic by Ray Hecht: “2007 and 2008 were quite the years: a time of friendship and drug experimentation and further travel, and then back to Burning Man… Which leads to the moment you’ve all been waiting for, at last I move to China!”
    L.A. Taco

    The people behind L.A. Taco are obsessed with Los Angeles. The indie publication was founded in 2006, mostly to document tacos and street art. The site now covers the Los Angeles food scene, music, galleries, festivals, and more.
    Self Guided Walking Tour: Penang Malaysia

    In which the Bumbling Tourist does a self-guided walking tour to capture the street art of Penang, Malasyia.
    Sydney Saunter
  5. Poetry
  6. The Believer Magazine

    The Believer is a bimonthly literature, arts, and culture magazine that publishes journalism, essays, interviews, comics, poetry, a symposium around a theme, and a column by Nick Hornby.
    A year of haiku about my kids.

    “It turns out the nightly parenting haiku is not only Minimum Viable Creativity, but also an opportunity to journal milestones every night without having to figure out what to say.” This post from 2017 at Unlikely Words compiles a year of haiku from a parent.
    As we grow old

    A beautiful poem on aging and and wisdom by Senator Murray Sinclair, former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: As we grow old / the ground we walk on / rises up / so that, / as each of those few moments / left to us / pass by…
    An interview with Ohio Poet Laureate Dave Lucas

    “Too many of us seem to have been taught that poems are supposed to be solved, some ‘deeper meaning’ discovered and extracted like a vein of ore from a mine. If we can’t find ‘it’ . . . we feel inadequate.” Rebecca Moon Ruark interviews Dave Lucas on her blog, Rust Belt Girl.