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Amy Lowell: The Broken Fountain

All day I have watched the purple vine leaves
Fall into the water.
And now in the moonlight they still fall,
But each leaf is fringed with silver.

October 4, 2024 · 27 Comments

Stuart Sheppard: The War Against Aesthetics in Contemporary Literature 

We are increasingly being told that it is not important how well a poet writes; rather, the crucial issue is what a poet says.

October 4, 2024 · 24 Comments

Jennifer Horney: Health risks are rising in mountain areas flooded by Hurricane Helene and cut off from clean water, power and hospitals

Contaminated water is one of the leading health risks, but residents also face harm to mental health.

October 3, 2024 · 9 Comments

Nidia Hernández: Río Turbio translated by Rowena Hill

I stopped in front of
the silence of all that distance
of my country being erased

October 2, 2024 · 7 Comments

Paul Christensen: Interpreting YouTube

YouTube is full of mini-documentaries on how other animals express love for one another, and remember the kindness paid to them by human beings after years of living in the wild.

October 2, 2024 · 8 Comments

Abby Zimet: Wearin’ Yesterday’s Misfortunes Like A Smile

He’s a poet he’s a picker he’s a prophet he’s a pusher
He’s a pilgrim and a preacher and a problem when he’s stoned
He’s a walking contradiction partly truth and partly fiction
Taking every wrong direction on his lonely way back home

October 1, 2024 · 11 Comments

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: Acceptance

Today grief is a long steady rain

September 30, 2024 · 15 Comments

Adam Bittleston: September

Into the ripening
Of earth’s great gifts
The mists of autumn
Begin to be woven.

September 29, 2024 · 9 Comments

Vanessa Chakour: My Innate Connection to Stolen Land

When people are distanced from land, they lose the intimate knowledge necessary to be effective stewards.

September 29, 2024 · 4 Comments

Baron Wormser: The Harrowing of Hart Crane (Among Others)

The fate of eloquence in modern times is played out in Crane’s poetry, not in some ultimate fashion but, rather, as a perpetual vision-quest one man puts himself through, a quest in which poetry is, at once, the means and the end.

September 27, 2024 · 11 Comments

Hart Crane: The Air Plant

The lizard’s throat, held bloated for a fly,
Balloons but warily from this throbbing perch.

September 27, 2024 · 8 Comments

BBC: Kamala Harris’s Platform

Ms Harris released a detailed policy platform in early September offering voters a look at what a Harris-Walz administration might look like.

September 26, 2024 · 6 Comments

Chard deNiord: I Call Out to You

Any moving object must reach halfway on a course before it reaches the end; and because there are an infinite number of halfway points, a moving object never reaches the … Continue reading

September 26, 2024 · 11 Comments

Michael Waldman: New Revelations Show Just How Corrupt the Supreme Court Really Is

Call me naïve. I felt confident in asserting that the court was a conservative court, a Federalist Society court, even a Republican court—but not a MAGA court.

September 25, 2024 · 8 Comments

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