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2022 Vol.1
Column – In Love with Language
A Brief Primer on Russian, Belorusian, and Ukrainian
Fiction 2022 – Vol. 1
Sewage, Sand and Sisyphus
“Mr. Beaumarchais”
The Farewell Song
A long winter
Creative Non-Fiction 2022 – Vol. 1
The English Teacher
Pride, Regret, and Rust-buckets
Stained
The Unexpected Professor
Gray Kimono
Monkey Want Banana
Anything You Want
“Do you play cricket?”
Poetry 2022 Vol. 1
The Rules
Language Barrier
Did you hear?
Education
The Alphabet Family
Essays 2022 – Vol. 1
Bagwis
Fish Tales and Tips: Hillel Wright’s Life, Stories, and Advice
A Note on Hyphens
What’s in a Name?
Before I Taught a Poem I’d Ask to Know
Authors 2022 – Vol. 1
2021 – Vol. 2
Essays
De Zoet Does Japan
L’esprit de l’escalier: A Mancunian in Japan
Hybrid Identities: Teaching While Learning
The Joy of Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Japan
Poetry
Vespers, Hue
chasing the rIsing sun
Perfect
Teaching is a Woman’s Job?
Early Lightning
Three Poems
Word of the Day
The Magic Words
Fiction
Traps
The Married Rocks
Creative Non-Fiction
Danny’s Revenge
That Moment in Montmartre
Déjà vu in Dammam
The Phone Company that won’t do Business on the Phone
Aisatsu – The Importance of being Seen and Noticed
Authors 2021, Vol. 2
2021 – Vol.1
Column – In Love with Language
Creative Non-Fiction
I Feel Your Pain. Do You Feel Mine?
Shady Practice
Lamparilla
WOEFUL TOEFL
On Payette Lake
An Excellent Night of Theater
Achieving my English Learning Goal at all Costs: What Did I Sacrifice?
Snookered, or, Why the British Talk That Way
Distractions during Zoom Lessons
Overnight
From Hoeing the Cornfields to Teaching English
Fiction
Miss Representation
The Odyssey
How Many?
Poetry
Wedged Underneath a Heavy Desk
The Monster Manual
Heritage Language
The Sounds of English
Adverbity / So What Does a Poet Do? / Alchemy of Ink
Authors 2021 Vol.1
2020 – Vol. 2
Creative Non-Fiction 2020 Vol.2
Line of Duty
Teaching Transcends Boundaries
Red Ants
The Language Dance
Weeding in Wakayama
Fiction 2020 Vol.2
The Uklak
Generation C
Hand to Mouth
Poetry 2020 Vol.2
One Nation, Under & Counting
On a Pickle, Very Very Very & “Figurative Language is Useless”
Enlightened Alphabet
The Eternal Thought, & The Day She Spoke
Essays 2020 Vol.2
Exactly Where I Should Be
A Quick Fix for English Teacher Burn-Out
Reclaiming Vedic Education
Authors 2020 Vol. 2
2020 – Vol. 1
Fiction Vol. 1 – 2020
Outside
The Rotten Mikan
Daisy
Julia in the Desert
Cheating
Peppermint Candy
Non-Fiction Vol. 1 – 2020
Two for the Price of One
Teaching During the Corona Virus Shutdown
Context for my outrage—teaching and learning after graduation
Essays Vol. 1 – 2020
This I Believe
Teaching and the Art of Compassion
Escaping from Osaka on the Dreamy Sea Bream Train
Poetry Vol. 1 – 2020
Lament, and Things I would not like to forget
Simply Silly
A Language Learning Adventure with Wrecked Haiku
The Wow! signal, This is home now, and Gaps
Hell-box
Chinese Characters – 3 Poems/ Lessons
Column – In Love with Language
Authors 2020 – Vol. 1
2019 – Vol.2
Column – In Love with Language
Fiction
Arab Spring
Blind in Darien
Save for a Rainy Day
Someone Cheated
Creative Non-Fiction
Hit from Behind
Total Physical Response in the University Prius
What to Say in a Knife Fight and other Regrettably Forgotten Lessons from High School German
Poetry
Essay
Interview – Steve Redford
Authors 2019 Vol. 2
2019 – Vol. 1
Column – In Love with Language
Fiction
Contract
European II
Jambo
On the Road to Emmaus: A Wednesday before the Chalkface
The Case of the Purloined Cats
The Gem Polishing Unit
The Lesson
The Seminar
Poetry 2019 Vol. 1
On Finding the Right Words
On Magic, Illusions and Other Realities
On Sunday School (3)
Essays
Dental Floss
Francesca and Stevick
Teaching at Fifty-Six
The Roundabout Way
Unfunny
Non-Fiction
Creating a Tsunami Evacuation Path
MARTIN JOOS
My New Job as Translator
Author Bios 2019 Vol. 1
2018 – Vol. 2
Creative Non-Fiction
If
Sorry Not Sorry
The Blue-Eyed Japanese Speaker
The Moonshine
The Road Warriors: A Journey Back in Time
The Worst Tenth Grader
Tigress Strength
Fiction
Deconstructing Identities
On the Way Home
Plum Rains on Happy House
The Crazy Girls Club Detectives
Poetry 2018 Vol. 2
On the Poetic Impulse
On New Horizons and Home Shores
On Sunday School (2)
Essays
Is Free Education the Solution?
The Life of a Nepalese Teacher
The World We Are Sending Them Off To
Column – In Love with Language
Column – In Love with Language
Author Bios 2018 Vol. 2
2018 – Vol. 1
Creative Non-Fiction 2018 Vol. 1
A Teacher’s Dilemma
Cheerfully Building and Rebuilding Despite Fire, War, and In-Laws
Crush
Laughs in Translation
Love In Any Language
My 12-Year Skype Call
Rights in the Matter
Saga of a Layman Turned Teacherman
Taro’s Gift
Fiction 2018 Vol. 1
Immortal Memory
Snapshots
The Acid Test
Poetry 2018 Vol. 1
On Language, Place and Culture
On the Workings of the Student Mind
Essays 2018 Vol. 1
From Chair to Instructor: Reflecting on a Transition
Practicing Spanish with Students in China
Column – In Love with Language
Author Bios 2018 Vol. 1
2017 – Vol. 2
Creative Non-Fiction 2017 – Vol. 2
While I Stand
How Not to Speak English
A Real Job
Beginning
Fiction 2017 – Vol. 2
DMZ
The Gerbil
Poetry 2017 Vol. 2
On Inspiration
On Friendship
On Sunday School (1)
Essays 2017 – Vol. 2
Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Ukraine
The Price of Freedom: A Few Thoughts on Learner Autonomy
Author Bios: 2017 – Vol. 2
2017 – Vol. 1
Creative Non-Fiction 2017 Vol. 1
End of Session
Finding Our Way
Making Up Names
An Unexpected Journey to Becoming Bilingual
Praying Hands
Language in the Round
Daisies, Pearls, and Mushrooms – Adventures in Language Learning
The 8 a.m. Class
Fiction 2017 Vol. 1
The Point
Too Many Photocopies
Poetry 2017 Vol. 1
On Boundaries
Author Bios 2017 Vol. 1
2016 – Vol. 2
Creative Non-Fiction 2016 Vol. 2
A New Phrase for Brazil
A Question of Stress
A Term or Two
Gun Shy
My ESS Debacle – Or, How Tomoyuki Lost his Groove
The Awkward Letter
Why
Fiction 2016 Vol. 2
Teachers’ Meeting! (A ‘Morality’ Play)
Vine and Gall
Poetry 2016 Vol. 2
On Resignation
Interview 2016 Vol. 2
An Interview – Susan Laura Sullivan
Author Bios 2016 – Vol. 2
2016 – Vol. 1
Creative Non-Fiction 2016 – Vol. 1
A Visit to Mod’s
Changing the Subject
Don’t Know Much About the French I Took
Fiction 2016 – Vol. 1
Four Days
Rubber Gloves
The Rain in Nagoya
Tiger Gate
Poetry 2016 Vol. 1
Thoughts on Poetry in the EFL Classroom
Essays 2016 – Vol. 1
Better Than the Browns
Wearing the Other Hat
Author Bios 2016 – Vol. 1
2015 – Vol. 2
Fiction 2015 Vol.2
A Crash Course in Conditional Clauses, a Hanoi Story
Dear Sir
Creative Non-Fiction 2015 Vol. 2
Anyone Listening? I’m Home
Staring at Walls
Poetry 2015 Vol 2
On Classroom Conflict
Essays 2015 Vol. 2
Gourmet Teaching
What is holding us back from becoming better writers?
Author Bios: 2015 Vol. 2
2015 – Vol. 1
Fiction 2015 Vol. 1
Where is Lion?
Hello Kitty
Reasons for Song
An Early Spring for Alex
Creative Non-Fiction 2015 Vol. 1
Meadow School: Teaching with Nature
Catching Breath in Nagano
The Writing is on the Whiteboard
The A to Z of an English Teacher in Hong Kong
Poetry 2015 Vol. 1
On Language Use
Making Rain
Essays 2015 Vol. 1
“What Should Adults Learn from Kids?”
English as a Second Life: Juggling Cultures in the Age of Globalization
Author Bios: 2015 – Vol. 1
2014 – Vol. 2
Creative Non-Fiction 2014 Vol. 2
Risk Taking
To Gunung-Gunung and Paths Unknown
Fiction 2014 Vol. 2
A New Appreciation for Mountain Climbers
Poetry 2014 – Vol. 2
On the Spoken Word
On Teachers
Essays 2014 Vol. 2
What It Is Like Here
The How and Why of Me Becoming a Teacher
Studying the Public and Private in France
Teaching English in Korea
Author Bios: 2014 – Vol. 2
2014 – Vol. 1
Fiction
A Snapshot of Sad
Mr Chizuwa
Ji-
The Little Suicides
Reading the Signs in Seoul
Class Act
Poetry
On Teaching and Learning
On the Written Word
Creative Non-Fiction
A Good Thing
The Far Country
Snakes Nudity Brats – Day 1
The English Metamorphosis of ESL Students and Me
The Nosy Teacher
Interviews
From English Teacher to Art Curator
Essays and Reviews
Language Acquisition
Barack and A Hard Place
Author Bios: 2014 – Vol. 1
2013 – Vol. 1
Fiction
The Barbarian
Harry Cherry Tomatoe
Toilet Slippers and Other Disasters
Poetry
Creative Non-fiction
The Battle of Mianzi
Counseling Mind
Just Like in the West
Native Language
Snow Angels
Essays and Reviews
English in China: A Miraculous & Conflicted Encounter
Author Bios: 2013 – Vol. 1
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Current Issue 2022 Vol.2
Fiction 2022 Vol. 2
A. P. English
The Carpenter’s Hammer
Early spring
Ladders
An Unexpected Message
Creative Non-fiction 2022 – Vol. 2
Cultural Cricket
Chapter 3. Enter the Gladiators
True Story
Poetry
Running with David
LUDIC
Two Poems by James Mulhern
Three Poems by Gale Acuff
Editing
Essays & Nonfiction
‘M’, Editing and A Vindication of the ‘Writes’ of (One) Woman
Asleep at The Oral Defense
The Language Teacher as Language Learner
An Opportunity
Stubborn: personal or public?
Authors 2022 – Vol. 2
Column – In Love with Language
