With Sol

A short meditation on a journey to 1000 ELO

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Do it! Do it! Do it!

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Jill McDonough is the author of American Treasure (Alice James, 2022), Here All Night (Alice James, 2019), Reaper (Alice James, 2017), Where You Live (Salt, 2012), Oh, James! (Seven Kitchens, 2012), and Habeas Corpus (Salt, 2008). The recipient of three Pushcart prizes and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, and Stanford’s Stegner program, she taught incarcerated college students through Boston University’s Prison Education Program for thirteen years. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Slate, The Nation, The Threepenny Review, and Best American Poetry. She teaches in the MFA program at UMass-Boston and started a program offering College Reading and Writing in two Boston jails. Her website: jillmcdonough.com.

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The work, Losing the War by Lee Sandlin, is being recorded with permission, Copyright 1997 Lee Sandlin. All rights reserved. Originally published in the Chicago Reader, March 7 and 14, 1997.

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Doug Neuman is an Upper School Counselor at Buckingham Browne & Nichols, an independent day school in Cambridge, MA.  Doug has worked in schools for 35 years in a variety of settings: public, private, rural, suburban and even international.  In his 20 years at BB&N, he has counseled students around a huge range of issues including depression, anxiety, gender and sexuality, substance use, family conflict, loss, disordered eating... to name a few.

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Music provided by the great INTOISHUN. You can listen to more of his work on Bandcamp and Spotify.

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10 Bullets on driving well and enjoying it.

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