The Writer - 04.2020

HUNT Treasure From the Library of Congress to the Smithsonian Institution, national research resources abound for the curious wr ...

20 | The Writer • April 2020 R The Library of Congress The Library of Congress is part of the U.S. legislative branch. Just as i ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 21 Congress business reference and research specialist. “Tell us what you’re working on.” There’s a ...

22 | The Writer • April 2020 the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights – but it offers so much more. The ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 23 Helpful tips for researching at national institutions Focus your questions Know what you want. T ...

24 | The Writer • April 2020 education, and research complex” and comprises 19 museums and galleries, the National Zoo, 21 libra ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 25 RESEARCH LINKS TO GET YOU STARTED Library of Congress: loc.gov/rr National Archives: archives.go ...

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writermag.com • The Writer | 27 How Oakland’s OG Rev aims to make the world a better place through verse. WORDS AS MEDICINE MEDI ...

28 | The Writer • April 2020 I It’s early morning in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District, misty and cold. Hypodermic needles and ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 29 “That poem captures the reality of black life in the inner city in the 1940s,” Williams says. “I ...

30 | The Writer • April 2020 that changed his life,” he recounts. The book was African American Studies professor Nathan McCall’ ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 31 people came in with their poems. “These were people from the streets, on the road to express the ...

32 | The Writer • April 2020 Announcing the winners of our When the weather warms, our attention spans start to wane. That’s why ...

FIRST-PLACE WINNER Something Happened BY MINDY MCGINNIS I sever the first two fingers of my left hand on a Tuesday. They fall to ...

34 | The Writer • April 2020 each one carries a lot of weight. I’d leave it alone for a week or two, return to it and change one ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 35 SECOND-PLACE WINNER BOUNCING BY KEITH CARTER Standing at the kitchen sink, blinking away sleep, ...

36 | The Writer • April 2020 THIRD-PLACE WINNER Black as Goth BY KARA DONADT The straw-haired girl, not a child though not yet a ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 37 to peer into the casket. She wanted, needed, to see him lying in that silk-lined box. But when s ...

38 | The Writer • April 2020 LITERARY SPOTLIGHT BY MELISSA HART INSIDE LITERARY MAGAZINES A man with dementia strug- gles to rem ...