“Stop playing politics with people’s lives.”
After the fool leaves The Tragedy of King Lear, where
does he go?
Home to see the wife, play ringolevio with the
neighborhood kids?
How to kick our national addiction to prisons
When fear scuttled through her thoughts
with its eight slender legs; when she recognized
the shiny black body, the bulbous abdomen
“Each year, the U.S. funnels billions of tax dollars to the Israeli government, funding obscene human rights violations,” said Rep. Cori Bush, who signed the letter. “We must stop funding Israeli apartheid.”
He is already shriveling into an empty legend, a flimsy cartoon of ruthless malevolence.
Whether it’s dandelions blooming in your backyard or purslane sprouting from the sidewalk, vegan forager Alexis Nikole Nelson is on a mission to show how freely growing flora could make its way to your plate.
Poet Suheir Hammad performs two spine-tingling spoken-word pieces: Wait for the astonishing line: “Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded.”
What is all this juice and all this joy?
Life’s too fragile
to waste on money or importance,
handing over the hours that will never
be returned to us.
In a high-speed “karma boomerang” delectable to see, Rep. Justin Jones, expelled for daring to protest the slaughter of America’s children, made a triumphant return to the GOP-majority House after Nashville officials unanimously reappointed him.
We must examine proactive ways to address the social issues that lead to crime and violence, which does not necessitate more police.
you, old poet, gone, whose lines I often
say aloud against the ocean’s constant shush
He’s only felt the shadow
of something enormous darken his life. Or has he?