Literary Guides

Ten journeys that remind you why movement changes us. Most people think travel writing is about getting somewhere. I don’t. I think it is about noticing. I think it is about paying attention to the world with the kind of slow curiosity we forget to practice in our regular lives. I learned this reading Patrick…

The first poem I ever loved (“Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman) wasn’t one I was supposed to write an essay about. It wasn’t assigned. No one circled anything in red ink. I found it by accident. I remember reading it and thinking, “I don’t know exactly what this means, but something in it feels…