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.
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.
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.
Nidia Hernández: Río Turbio translated by Rowena Hill
I stopped in front of
the silence of all that distance
of my country being erased
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.
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
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: Acceptance
Today grief is a long steady rain
Adam Bittleston: September
Into the ripening
Of earth’s great gifts
The mists of autumn
Begin to be woven.
Vanessa Chakour: My Innate Connection to Stolen Land
When people are distanced from land, they lose the intimate knowledge necessary to be effective stewards.
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.
Hart Crane: The Air Plant
The lizard’s throat, held bloated for a fly,
Balloons but warily from this throbbing perch.
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.
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
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.
