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2023 – Vol. 1
Column – In Love with Language
Thinking in Pictures
Fiction 2023 Vol. 1
Boat to Heaven
BUS STOP
Chapter 4: Dazed, Drenched and Confused
Dysfunctional Word Families
Embracing Ambiguity
Far From Home
Making Love in the Disco Room over Hirohito’s Dead Body
The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Learning
Word Games
Creative nonfiction 2023 Vol. 1
Behind the Iron Canon: Teaching Literary Theory in East Germany
Second Language
Tea in Taiwan
Why (school)?
Poetry 2023 Vol. 1
Gale Acuff Two Poems
Animal Kingdom
Brave Soul Wins Heart
Invisible Exile
Gerard Sarnat Three Poems
Martin Bennett Two Poems
Nolo Segundo Three Poems
Off the Wagon
Paul Hostovsky Two Poems
Pronunciation practice
Teachers
The Viewless Wings of Poesy
Vyacheslav Konoval, Voice from Ukraine
Without a Word
Yonsei
Essay & nonfiction
Foreign
Suckered Twice?
Turnabout is Fair Play—Wedding Speech
You don’t look native enough to teach English
Authors 2023 – Vol. 1
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
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 2023 – Vol. 2
Column – In Love with Language
Fast and Furious
Fiction 2023 -Vol. 2
For Bread, Not Money
Momentum
The Novelist
The Polyglot
Sleeping Princes and Sozzled Kamikazes
You Don’t Just Get To Change Your Mind
Poetry 2023 -Vol. 2
Amy
Brushstrokes
Caramel Apple Cider
CLEANING OUT
The Family Tree
Learning
The Mind Code
Of Course I Think to Myself
Two Poems by Phil Huffy
Pesky Porcupine
Pondering Over a Tomato Soup
A Substitute Teacher Gets a Spanish Lesson from a Kindergartener
Essay & nonfiction 2023-Vol. 2
Deaf Interpreter
DENGLISCH
Mr. Pann
My Experience: Reading is an Intellectual Inebriation
Second Language Learning, Teaching, and Growing: My EFL Story
Who am I?
You Couldn’t Tell Who the Back Row Students Were
Authors 2023 – Vol. 2
Fiction 2017 – Vol. 2
DMZ
– By Chris Mares
The Gerbil
– By Alex Shihsin
