Archive - Well Worded

You can get anything you want from the Library of Congress, the nation’s oldest cultural institution.

Feb 7 •

Anne Welsbacher

December 2024

The King’s Groom of the Stool

It's what you think it is.

Dec 27, 2024 •

Anne Welsbacher

Words in Hard Times

Poems pre-date propaganda and will outlast it.

Dec 13, 2024 •

Anne Welsbacher

November 2024

Writing Holiday Letters

Your only competition is with yourself.

Nov 8, 2024 •

Anne Welsbacher

October 2024

Writing Spirits

It's scary what can lead to great writing.

Oct 31, 2024 •

Anne Welsbacher

Or how a gunmaker saw how miraculous it was, and doctors (stop the presses) didn’t.

Oct 25, 2024 •

Anne Welsbacher

When They Won’t Get Better

What (and if) to write to the dying and their loved ones.

Oct 11, 2024 •

Anne Welsbacher

September 2024

Move over, Hawkeye Pierce.

Sep 20, 2024 •

Anne Welsbacher

Living Language

We survived the Ice Age by talking to each other.

Sep 6, 2024 •

Anne Welsbacher

August 2024

July 2024

Clever Creatures

Animals in action: it’s physics, baby.

Jul 26, 2024 •

Anne Welsbacher

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