Video: ‘Dregs in a Bottle’ by Kate Tempest
Kate Tempest performs “Dregs in a Bottle.” This video was filmed and recorded by Kim-Leng Hills in the poet’s house in November 2010.
Major Jackson: A Mystifying Silence — Big and Black
Nigger, your breed ain’t metaphysical. —Robert Penn Warren, “Pondy Woods” Beginning in earnest his long and preeminent literary career in the 1930s, it is safe to say poet and novelist … Continue reading
Matthew Thorburn: Two Poems from “A Green River in Spring”
First Light . The sun breaks like an egg over everything east of here. Stop stop, enough enough, the sparrows say—or that’s what Lao Wen says . they say in … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: The Torturers
Took their break after they finally broke a man and made him lie, implicate his friends and cause their deaths. They washed off the blood, sat smoking in the shade. … Continue reading
Eduardo Galeano: The Celebration That Was Not
. The peons on the farms of Argentina’s Patagonia went out on strike against stunted wages and overgrown workdays, and the army took charge of restoring order. Executions are grueling. … Continue reading
Adrian Blevins: My Mother’s First Husband
My mother’s first husband, who was the first mentally ill person I ever met, rents storage spaces all over D.C. He saves in crate after carton after crate: paper towel … Continue reading
Charlie Brice: Soulium
Having doubts about why you are alive, why things happen as they do, why religious fanatics burn people alive, take off heads, shoot unarmed cartoonists, destroy ageless art works, hang … Continue reading
Leonard Gontarek: Coffee
1 For the young women going door to door, black dresses, fishnet stockings, asking if we’ve thought about death on this beautiful fall Saturday. For the light that has made … Continue reading
James Keye: Wake up to your Myths, America!
. I created this list of “American Myths” 25 years ago thinking that some significant part of the people would begin to understand them over time. What seems to be … Continue reading
Martha Clare Morris: Eat Your Greens to Protect Your Brain
. Something as easy as adding more spinach, chard, kale, collards and mustard greens to your diet could help slow cognitive decline, according to new research. The study also examined … Continue reading
Jenne R. Andrews: Calabrian Garlic
. In her window, a basket of garlic reaching for the sun. She broke off one of its fat cloves and took the knife . to it, using the blade’s … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: In Indiana religious wars, money talks
We learn same old lesson from Indiana law that claims to protect religious rights: Money talks. When did the fight about religious liberty change from protecting the right to practice … Continue reading
Jose Padua: Pulling White Hairs
When I was a child I’d pull the white hairs from my mother’s head. It was a chore like any other—like making my bed in the morning, folding my clothes … Continue reading
Andy Piascik: Looking Back at the Vietnam War
It’s been 40 years since the end of the Vietnam War. At least that’s what it’s called in the United States, the Vietnam War. In Vietnam, it’s called the American … Continue reading
