Jessica Corbett: Court Orders Shutdown of Dakota Access Pipeline
The decision to temporarily shut down DAPL came just a day after two energy companies cancelled the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) that would have transported fracked gas through West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina.
David Adès: Premonitions of Catastrophe
This was not the burning of witches or heretics
but the burning of a continent
Paul Christensen: On Silence
I am possessed of a brooding spirit, some ominous angel who has landed on my shoulders, staring at my ear. It wants to know why I do not understand silence, the poetry of space.
Rebecca Gordon: The Sudden Descent of The United States
Can making Black Lives Matter rescue a failing state?
Miriam Levine: Invisible Kisses
And survivors with numbers tattooed on their arms, straight as a
bookkeeper’s sum,
the ink indelibly blue, unlike the blessedly changing ocean.
Karen Friedland: Two Poems of Gratitude
There’s something to be said
for loving your life,
exactly as it is—
Michael Simms: A Brief History Of Tree Hugging
The first tree huggers were 294 men and 69 women belonging to the Bishnois branch of Hinduism, who, in 1730, died while trying to protect the trees in their village from being turned into the raw material for building a palace. They literally clung to the trees, while being slaughtered by the foresters.
Shoshi Parks: The Shared History of Wild Horses and Indigenous People
Horse sanctuaries along the Native American Horse Trail are working to save America’s last Indigenous horses and rewrite official histories that claim they don’t exist.
Liz Moran: Telling the Bees (for JoAnn)
Your emptiness
depends upon the bees.
Loretta Graceffo: Music is a living thing
We are all your children
If you hear us, join us now
We’re gonna strike because the waters are rising
We’re gonna strike because our people are dying
We’re gonna strike for life and everything we love
Elizabeth Kirschner: Because the Sky is a Thousand Soft Hurts
Never forget how easily we love what survives to be loved.
M.A. Sinnhuber: In this Time
propel yourself forward—
as in airplane force
or Air Force or forceps
forcing a baby to be born
Paul Christensen: The Reluctant Summer
I could feel the rage building as I saw the nation writhe, then uncoil its wrath and take to the streets. I was demoralized to realize that my whole life had been lived in the twisted emotions of a country poisoned to its soul with racist hatred.
Jane Goodall: Humanity is finished if it fails to adapt after Covid-19
The famous primatologist calls for an overhaul of food habits to prevent a future pandemic.
