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Black bear trying (and failing) to catch a beaver By: Jonathan Wright From: Wild, Wild World of Animals: Bears and Other Carnivores 1976
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Black bear trying (and failing) to catch a beaver By: Jonathan Wright From: Wild, Wild World of Animals: Bears and Other Carnivores 1976
“Hanschen is not predatory and him and Ernst are in love,” I say into the mic.
The crowd boos. I begin to walk off in shame, when a voice speaks & commands silence from the room.
“He's right,” they say. I look for the owner of the voice. There in the 1st row stands: Frank Wedekind himself.
A recent Gazette article on the award-winning R. W. Kern Center at Hampshire College, also commenting on its beautiful sister-ship, the Hitchcock Center for the Environment, on the Hampshire campus, gives the reader a sense of the scope of the Living...
“Two Living Buildings on one campus, built by one local construction team. A first for the planet, in more ways than one.“
Thank you to Jonathan Wright, founder and senior advisor with Wright Builders Inc. in Northampton, for all of his help constructing the R.W. Kern and Hitchcock Centers, and for his inspiring column on these buildings’ monumental impact on the future of environmentally sustainable design!
Translating Arabic Polyglossia
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Forthcoming April 2025: Fast-paced Sci Fi, Poetry from Gaza, a Yemeni Short Stories, & More
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New Short Fiction: 'Evil in My Bag'
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