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70-Plus Reasons… | Don Williams


Editor Emeritus Don Williams on “70-Plus Reasons To Reject Trump And Rescue Our Endangered New Millennium”

In keeping with tradition, New Millennium Writings is taking a stand. Please help us rescue our still-young Millennium, which appeared to be dawning with such promise at our founding in 1996.

Any one of these 70-plus reasons should be enough to persuade anyone who wishes the best for our descendants and our world. I could list many more…

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Why I Never Get Anywhere, or, A List of Mostly Failed Poetry Ideas Scribbled at the back of Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude | Kim Farrar

57th NMW Award for Nonfiction
Kim Farrar of Astoria, New York

An honest and joy-soaked accounting, Farrar’s essay is an ode to those magical, maddening moments that make up a life, and the brilliant, unfinished poems tucked away in nearly every writer’s mind.

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Lines in Algonquin | David Sloan

55th NMW Award for Poetry.
David Sloan of Brunswick, Maine for “Lines in Algonquin”

Sloan’s “Lines in Algonquin” is a transportive meditation on primal paradoxes.
Why does experiencing Nature alone reveal one’s connection to every living thing? How can a moonless sky make us feel inconsequential yet intricately linked to every falling star? For those who could happily spend a lifetime pondering such questions, this poem is for you.

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