Ernesto Cardenal: Prayer for Marilyn Monroe
Lord,
welcome this girl known throughout the world as Marilyn Monroe,
although that was not her real name
Anya Jabour: How a survey of over 2,000 women in the 1920s changed the way Americans thought about female sexuality
Katharine Bement Davis was able to show that it was normal for women to have sex for pleasure.
Archibald MacLeish: Ars Poetica
A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds.
Rebecca Gordon: A Personal Meditation on Growing Old In a Catastrophic Age
Passing the Torch while Broke
Roshni Ahmed: 23 Years After 9/11, Are We Any Safer?
True justice for the lives lost on 9/11 and during the U.S.’ war on terror would require us to put an end to overfunding violence and war.
Nidia Hernández: Refugiada | A refugee
the country in a foreign film
where I live now
I’m alone with the trees
Abby Zimet: OMG Now They’re Coming For Our Cats and Chairs and Ducks
Sheesh. The Crazy Train just keeps clattering on.
Anita Hofschneider: Environmental Justice as Birthright
Indigenous youth are using litigation to force change in political and economic systems that have long resisted calls to climate action. On Aug. 8, 2023, 13-year-old Kaliko was getting ready for … Continue reading
Laure-Anne Bosselaar: Farmer’s Market in Antwerp
I remember this so clearly — as if it happened today.
How she arranged her skirt, rubbed her hands together.
Craig Mokhiber: The UN’s Settler-Colonial Bloc
A UN grouping anchored by the Anglo countries, Israel, and European states wields disproportionate power to undermine human rights and international law.
Angele Ellis: Love in a Time of Genocide | In Palestine Wail, Yahia Lababidi seeks the redemption of the human soul
Tell me, what steel entered your heart,
what fear made you rabid,
what hate drove out pity?
Helen Hunt Jackson: Poppies on the Wheat
Along Ancona’s hills the shimmering heat,
A tropic tide of air with ebb and flow
Bathes all the fields of wheat until they glow
Like flashing seas of green
William J. Astore: From the Arsenal of Democracy to an Arsenal of Genocide
The Pernicious Price of Global Reach, Global Power, and Global Dominance
Julia Conley: Biden’s Own Policy Requires US to Stop Arming Israel
Amnesty International was one of 25 human rights groups telling the administration to follow its own guidelines.
