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Dr. Wm. Anthony Connolly

The Pivot

I’m one of those people. I rehearse. I practice. I study. I read, ask questions. So it takes me a while to reach the larger questions one…

Oct 16, 2020

The Pivot

Oct 16, 2020

The Art of Humility

It’s one of those journey-not-a-destination kind of things

Apr 2, 2020

The Art of Humility

Apr 2, 2020

Argie-Bargie

It’s always a good idea to once in a while take stock of yourself as an essayist. Here’s mine —

Dec 19, 2019

Argie-Bargie

Dec 19, 2019

Turning Ourselves into Characters

Somewhere in mid-Missouri it struck me: Phillip Lopate wasn’t Phillip Lopate.

Dec 19, 2019

Turning Ourselves into Characters

Dec 19, 2019

Today’s Montaignes

At heart, a personal essay is an attempt to arrest oblivion by wrestling into some kind of shape, or purpose, the mess of life. After all…

Dec 19, 2019

Today’s Montaignes

Dec 19, 2019

Open Body: Trying Veganism

This piece is inspired by a friend, who recently decided to become a vegetarian. She made the decision public on social media, and…

Jul 12, 2018

Open Body: Trying Veganism

Jul 12, 2018

On Memory

In recent discussions on memory, a controversial issue has been whether collective memory or repressed memory is indeed authentic calling…

May 6, 2018

On Memory

May 6, 2018

Two Roads, and I…

I’m on a long, and winding road.

Jan 14, 2017

Jan 14, 2017

Person from Porlock

A dream. An opium-induced haze. Famously, either a dream or a drug helped or hindered Samuel Taylor Coleridge to realize his poem “Kubla…

Jan 13, 2017

Person from Porlock

Jan 13, 2017

Ductus!

It’s the middle of the night, and I am twelve, maybe thirteen, when I awake in terrible pain. The pain is coming from between my legs. I…

Oct 6, 2016

Oct 6, 2016

Dr. Wm. Anthony Connolly

Dr. Wm. Anthony Connolly

PhD. Author of Psalms & Stones, The Obituaries and The Jenny Muck, and the forthcoming The Smallest Universe.

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