Come Shining: Essays and Poems on Writing in a Dark Time Author|Blair Clinton The Jim Henson Foundation’s International

The Jim Henson Foundation’s International Puppet Festivals brought puppet theater into mainstream American theater

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The Internet's ability to provide a public sphere for people to discuss the issues of the day and other topics of interest means that people can use the language of the Internet to express themselves in ways that would not be feasible in the real world

Come Shining: Essays and Poems on Writing in a Dark Time Author|Blair Clinton The Jim Henson Foundation’s InternationalWhat is the duty of writers when the shared life of the nation turns toward darkness? In the first days of the new presidency of January 2017, twelve writers met together in Portland, Oregon to share our sense of mute, useless outrage, and ask: What should we be doing, as the nation turns toward lying, racism, and hatred? During an unusually stormy Portland winter, we came to see that reading and writing were a virtual commons, a public space where