Creative nonfiction is a genre that continually expands. It encompasses memoir and a range of essay types that include lyric, braided, narrative, and hybrid (mixing poetry or fiction with non-fiction) works. I am partial to lyric essays because they combine my first love, poetry, with storytelling – “true stories well told,” some writer once said, which for me means conveying the meaning, mystery, and beauty of the ordinary. That is some of what you fill find here.
Death at the Paw Paw Tunnel
Litwin’s Fine Furniture
Digger Man
Acadian Armor
Dark-Eyed Babies of the World
A List of Songbirds
Drawknife
Mama
Crawl Space
Stardust Vigil
Archaeology
Wisdom
In Lawns We Trust
The Rest of Where the Wild Things Are
Water for Songs
Blackface in My Bones
An Imperfect Finish
Heart Hoarder
Melanie S Smith 
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