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.
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
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…
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.
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
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: Like a Friend
I didn’t land. I fell and I fell and I fell.
At first as I plummeted, I feared the landing,
imagining an imminent crash. Then,
I fell through nights and middays. Fell through
kitchen floors and highways.
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.
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…
Video: Israeli And Palestinian Mothers Walk Barefoot For Peace In Rome Streets
The activists demanded an end to violence, emphasizing that mothers everywhere want their children to live in dignity and safety.
Philip Levine: Blue
the men wakening one
at a time and reaching for
both the sky and the earth
Michael Simms: Apologies for the tech glitches at Vox Populi Sphere
Friends, odd things have been happening with the Vox Populi website lately.
Rebecca Gordon: American Gulag
We know we can dismantle the American gulag, because some of us are already doing it. It’s time for the rest of us to get to work.
James Crews: The Pond at Sunset
I forget I’ve already arrived
in the life I want, and that I am
still arriving at the same time.
Andrew Reginald Hairston: On Building
I lost my second election on March 3, 2026…. I’m just getting started.
