Baron Wormser: What Nurtures Us, What Diminishes Us
Poetry is the remembrance and avowal of loss and is accordingly pushed aside.
Video: Dear Philadelphia
With the help of their family, friends, and faith, three fathers unravel the incomparable partnership of forgiveness and community in North Philadelphia.
Amy Lowell: Lilacs
The bright eyes of song sparrows sitting on spotted eggs
Peer restlessly through the light and shadow
Of all Springs.
John Paul Lederach: Why movements need to learn to fly like bees and thread like spiders
For insights into building a broad-based pro-democracy movement take inspiration from nature.
Abby Zimet: Dungeons and Aliens
People grabbed at court, guys chased and pummeled at Home Depot, women cuffed as their kids cry, crowds shouting in rage. A guy on the ground, piled on by thugs, screams, “I’m an American!” Brown workers at a car wash are dragged off past two dazed white workers.
Adam Patric Miller: A Teacher’s End of the Year Reflection
I can choose to motivate students by manipulating their fear of grades or I can subvert their ideas about grades and inspire them to learn because a good human being becomes a better human being when they are learning for real.
Emanuel Fabian: Israeli Settlers Beat American to Death in Illegally Occupied West Bank
US State Department said it was “aware of reports of the death of a US citizen in the West Bank.”
Rachel Hadas: Pastorals
Its title is Red Comet, but the book itself is more like a long freight train, a slow train, a train crammed with information, a train that stops at every station, not to let anyone out but to take more in.
Ahmad Shamlou: Excerpts from Elegies of the Earth
Is it old age
to coil inward like a cloud
and thunder without rain?
Video: The commencement address that Harvard suppressed for mentioning genocide
Who are the people who remind you of your worth and give you the courage to try again? And who are the people who sit with you as we witness the moral injuries of our time?
Sarah Anderson, Lindsay Koshgarian: 10 Ways the GOP’s Big Ugly Bill Could Hurt You
The Trump’s new spending bill represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since chattel slavery.
Mary Jane White: Summer in Waukon, Iowa
The curly-haired cherub, maybe
Eleven, if that, seated on a concrete step,
In his grey t-shirt, blazoned with the
Slogan “Virginity Rocks” is plucking
The late dandelions and rolling them up
Into spit-wads…
Alfred McCoy: America’s New Industrial Revolution
Ten years from now, Trump will be remembered ruefully for having used the full force of presidential power in a failed, futile effort to halt the tides of technological change that, by then, will have launched this country headlong into the world’s new industrial revolution.
