Though Lincoln himself was not Jewish, his words of support drawn from the faith of history’s first Jew continue to serve as a chord of comfort in the American consciousness. The dream is simple: that ...

— From the poem “If I Shut My Eyes, What Other Doors in Me Fly Open,” by Ben Purkert, in the collection “For the Love of Endings” (Four Way Books, 2018, Page 6). “The difference between the almost ...

I am trying to write a one-sentence story like Hemingway. Because he, purportedly, won a bet with the following: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” And it is, undeniably, a story. Six words are all ...