Come Shining: Essays and Poems on Writing in a Dark Time

By: Jill Elliott and Alison Towle Moore and David Oates

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Synopsis: Writing in a Dark Time was a writing group created in response to the 2016 election in the United States. .As group leader David Oates explains, "We aimed to write short, to cut deep and speak plain. We explored difficulty and struggle in many forms: electoral, racial, familial, personal. We began to see that the angry dysfunction of our political moment had its roots in isolation, what Arendt had called simply loneliness." The short essays and poems in this anthology were contributed by Bess Bacall, Heidi Beierle, Eleanor Berry, John Brantingham, Kamala Bremer, Jeremy Cantor, Rachael Duke, Jill Elliott, Mare Hake, Suzy Harris, Sonya Huber, Maria James-Thiaw, Marilyn Johnston, Diane Josefowicz, Kali Lightfoot, Annie Lighthart, Lois Ruskai Melina, Alison Towle Moore, David Oates, Paulann Petersen, Andy Smart, Leah Stensen Tina Tau, Seth Michael White, and Edward Wolf. The volume was edited by Jill Elliott and Alison Towle Moore with general editor David Oates.