{"id":106,"date":"2019-06-28T10:34:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T14:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mdburke\/?page_id=106"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:40:51","slug":"essays-articles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mdburke\/essays-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Essays & Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alley, Noepoli, Italy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n

“Weapon Station,” Panorama<\/em>, Issue 17, March 2026<\/a><\/p>\r\n

“Deepening and Complicating: The Creative Nonfiction Workshop,” chapter in Evolving Strategies for Writing Feedback on Creative Manuscripts<\/em>, editor, Leah McCormack, Routledge, 2026<\/p>\r\n

“A Kind of Magical Thinking,” July 2025, Rustica<\/em>.
\u201cYou Move to Maine,\u201d from Alive to This,<\/em> Littoral Books, December 2024<\/a>
<\/span><\/span>\u201cA Sort of Pilgrimage,\u201d Lovestoft Chronicle<\/em>, December 1, 2022.<\/a>
<\/span><\/span>\u201cRequiem for a Maple,\u201d D\u00e9cor Maine<\/em>, October 2020.
<\/span><\/span>\u201cPre-Digital Connectivity,\u201d\u00a0Down East<\/em>, July 2020<\/a>
<\/span><\/span>\u201cConsider the Fern,\u201d Down East<\/em>, April 2018.<\/a>
<\/span><\/span>\u201cA Brush with Beauty as an Artist in Italy,\u201d Boston Globe<\/em>, March 13, 2016<\/a>
<\/span><\/span>\u201cIt Didn’t \u2018Ad\u2019 Up,\u201d Boston Globe<\/em>, January 10, 2016.<\/a>
<\/span><\/span>\u201cInto the Wildwood,\u201d Down East<\/em>. December 2015.<\/a>
<\/span><\/span>\u201cLet it Burn,\u201d Down East<\/em>, January 2015.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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— from “Weapons Station”<\/p>\r\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But what I remember most, will always remember, is that smooth feel, in the darkness, of the snake passing companionably across my feet.\u00a0 A sensation like no other, one I\u2019ll probably never have again.\u00a0 Cool, impossibly smooth, like a tactile whisper, sliding across my skin, skin on skin, into the darkness, never to be repeated.\u00a0 And I remember the fathers slashing downwards at the danger, the snake that had left the Weapons Station and entered the orchard.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

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Train stopped by snowy hill, Dover, De Forest Douglas<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n

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“Weapon Station,” Panorama, Issue 17, March 2026 “Deepening and Complicating: The Creative Nonfiction Workshop,” chapter in Evolving Strategies for Writing Feedback on Creative Manuscripts, editor, Leah McCormack, Routledge, 2026 “A Kind of Magical Thinking,” July 2025, Rustica.\u201cYou Move to Maine,\u201d from Alive to This, Littoral Books, December 2024\u201cA Sort of Pilgrimage,\u201d Lovestoft Chronicle, December 1, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2310,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"full-width-content","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mdburke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mdburke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mdburke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mdburke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mdburke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":62,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mdburke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mdburke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mdburke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}