Travel

City Chickens

Sun, 31 May 2026 15:00:00 -0400

I never thought // I’d end up like this, domesticated as a pet lamb, / with a mate who worries our hundred-year-old house // needs new everything, shingles to foundation.

Milk

Sun, 31 May 2026 11:00:00 -0400

Pumped for an infant, spilled at the dinner table, used as a tear gas antidote

Ancestors

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:00:45 -0400

Some African harmonic traditions and histories may have been redacted, but they’re not lost. In New Orleans, specifically among the tribes, they made sure to hold on to those histories and the skeleton keys of those expressions.

My Bowstring Heart

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:00:00 -0400

On the field I was all animal instinct and brute force—a bruiser, a bone breaker. Every tackle was a rebuke against a life where fathers die. When I played rugby, I wasn’t a broke, lost little girl. I wasn’t a struggling amateur writer. I had goals. I was a winner. I was MVP. I was someone.

A Thousand Words

elligur@gmail.com — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:00:00 -0400

A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.

Pockets

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:00:00 -0500

Shoplifting cigarettes, running the pool table, creating a “pocket prairie”

Plastiscenes

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:00:00 -0500

To show the impact of litter on what should be pristine beaches, I’ve been exploring a new way of processing my photographs: First, I take a traditional seascape. Then, using a transfer lift, I print it onto marine litter collected at the same location, usually on the same day.

Nicknames

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:00:00 -0500

Get to know Boxcar Betty, Stick Dick, Lali, and the Cajun Asian

Sleeping Children

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:00:00 -0500

What was happening in and to Gaza was not really about democracy at all—or any kind of universal, God-given values. It was simply about power.

A Thousand Words

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:00:00 -0500

A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.

A Thousand Words

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:00:00 -0500

A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.

Bad Lunch

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:00:00 -0500

I’d come to think of being a chef on a yacht as a kind of psycho-spiritual quest, like Homer’s Odyssey, only instead of tumultuous seas and six-headed monsters, our challenges were wealthy clients who arrived by private jet with Louis Vuitton purses on their arms.

A Thousand Words

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 12:00:00 -0500

A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.

Celebrating

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0500

A fiftieth anniversary in Paris, a COVID Christmas in April, a first birthday in America

Sunbeams

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:00:00 -0400

America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration. We fundamentally have been a culture that’s been put together from the explosions of other cultures. But it’s hard for us to see. We have blinded ourselves to the reality of what our country is.

Junot Díaz

A Thousand Words

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:00:00 -0400

A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.

Getting Dressed

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 12:00:00 -0400

Sleeping in uniform, layering against the cold, wearing your spouse’s jeans

The Seafood Stand

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:00:00 -0400

Once, my father drove from New Jersey to California by siphoning gas from strangers’ cars, then sent his van off the Pacific Coast Highway by laying a brick on the accelerator. His mother almost died when she heard.

The Healer

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:00:00 -0400

He was riding the train to his teaching job when he heard about Skimmer’s bike accident in a post from another college friend. It was noon in Tokyo, where he was an English instructor; his conversation school opened in thirty minutes. Skimmer had been one of his closest friends in college. They’d lived on the same floor for two years and had shared an off-campus house with others for three years after that. Skimmer had started mountain biking their first semester in the house. Sometimes he would have accidents, and his blood would smear the bathtub while he dressed his wounds. But then he would clean, and when Skimmer cleaned, he scrubbed and wiped and penetrated each corner, calling upon a small orchestra of sprays and rags, brushes and solutions. It was like watching Leonard Bernstein scour a tub.

Conversations With A Banana Spider

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:00:00 -0500

The smell of wild honeysuckle was everywhere, and the mango trees sagged with the weight of their fruit. I’d often hear the ripe ones fall to the street with a heavy, wet thud, or else bang off the metal roofs of outbuildings where homeless wanderers sometimes slept. This abundance of fruit made Loreto seem like an impossible place to starve, yet I saw a few souls who looked like they were trying their best to do just that. Was it legal, I wondered, to simply reach up and pull a ripe mango from someone else’s tree? Being a foreigner with money, I didn’t need to find out.

Sunbeams

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 12:00:00 -0500

I’m not sure which matters more—where the seed comes from, or where it takes root and grows.

Zetta Elliott, A Wish After Midnight

To the Arresting Officer

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 12:00:00 -0500

You patted me down roughly, went through my pockets and pulled out three crumpled twenties, some guitar picks, my stepfather’s pocketknife. “You got drugs, son?”

Lost and Found

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 12:00:00 -0500

I want to be a good man, a good son, but that’s hard to pull off when it’s 100 degrees and feels like 115 because of the 90 percent humidity—current conditions in southeast Georgia. I’ve come home to visit my eighty-two-year-old mother and assuage some of my guilt for not being here fifty weeks out of the year.

Luxuries

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 12:00:00 -0500

A foreign sports car, a Hawaiian vacation, a glass of water on a hot day

Timing

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 12:00:00 -0400

A broken clock, a chance encounter, a long-distance relationship

Misunderstandings

Sat, 31 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Missed calls, misheard lyrics, mistaken identities

I Make Jokes When I’m Devastated

lm2534@hotmail.com — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0400

If you walk the stations of the cross, most tour guides / will politely point out the spot where they think Jesus / may have fallen or the spot where / he may have met his mother.

Clean Breaks

kslunstrum@gmail.com — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:00:00 -0400

Sonja wakes to a stranger’s voice in the boat with her. A man’s voice. A panicked moment passes before she realizes that it’s coming over the radio and not from inside the cabin. “Aidez-moi,” the man says. “Help. Ayúdame. Please.” His call cuts in and out between the fuzz of the handheld VHF’s granular static.

Fuel

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:00:00 -0400

Feeding the woodstove, siphoning gas with a hose, drinking endless cups of coffee

Athens, Revised

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:00:00 -0400

Perhaps you know where this is going, or think you do. I do not. I decide the man is just being hospitable, like all the Greeks I’ve met during my ten days traveling through the country. As we disembark from the ferry, he says he is a father, recently divorced, and was raised in Athens, where his mother still lives. He is on his way there to visit her.