Stephen Prager: 100+ International Law Experts Say US Strikes on Iran Violate UN Charter, Could Be War Crimes
The US started a war despite “no imminent threat” from Iran and has since carried out widespread attacks against schools, hospitals, civilian homes, and energy facilities.
Elizabeth Bishop: A Cold Spring
Beneath the light, against your white front door,
the smallest moths, like Chinese fans,
flatten themselves, silver and silver-gilt
over pale yellow, orange, or gray.
Patricia A. Nugent: Missing Who I Was
This sign hit me hard today. I, too, miss who I was before…when I could watch the news, sleep at night, find time for creative expression. Feel unabashed joy.
Majid Naficy: The Persian New Year
When the Thirteenth Day comes
You’ll go with the flowing water
And speak to the sky and the earth
Of the beautiful moments of love.
Linda Parsons: The Other Side
To unlock my Akashic records, I speak my name three times to the psychic, echo the spell that flew Dorothy over the rainbow, farther still, home to sepia Kansas.
David Kirby: Penelope’s Suitors
Honestly. Not the brightest guys in the world, are they?
Her husband sails off to Troy, and beautiful Penelope’s there
just ripe for the picking, only she keeps putting them off
Jianqing Zheng: Flamenco in Four Parts
Hands clapping, fingers snapping, heels clicking—the dancer in a red trumpet dress swirls in a flow of vitality, stomping the wooden floor to percuss the bargoers’ hearts.
Elise Kazanjian: Reading at Bird & Beckett book store in San Francisco
We pick our fights. We
march for rights. We
thousands strong. We
replace wrong.
Pascale Petit: Black Jaguar with Quai Saint-Bernard
If I hold my breath, half-close my eyes
and listen hard — there at the tongue’s root,
in the voicebox of night, I might hear
the almost-vanished. He’s summoning his prey…
George Yancy: The Black Anti-Fascist Tradition Recognized Fascism Didn’t Begin in Europe
The earliest roots (or pillars) of fascism — authoritarian rule, genocide and ethnic cleansing, militarism, racial capitalism, dual application of the law — can be traced to the colonization of Africa and chattel slavery across the Americas.
David Bromwich: The Most Dangerous Country
Machiavelli advised that it is good to be feared, but take care that you are not more hated than feared. We may already have crossed that line.
Ellen McGrath Smith: Plea to the Plutocrats During Holy Week
We will all be together, you will never avoid it,
in the air, the earth, and the ash.
Monica Duffy Toft: Overconfidence is how wars are lost − lessons from Vietnam, Afghanistan and Ukraine were ignored
Wars are rarely lost first on the battlefield. They are lost in leaders’ minds…
Philip Terman: Tell Them Everything
Lucky she was, not to spend time in an Iranian
Jail, fortunate to emigrate and meet my brother
And fall in love, a Jew and an Iranian
