Kristofer Collins: This Vicious Year
The common belief is the universe
is cold and empty and this speck of dust
is the only game in town. And what have we done
with this mathematically improbable honor?
Yana Djin: We will walk in the Riverside Park
We will sit hand in hand on a bench
old and pure,
sinful, human, drenched
in life that offered no cure.
Video: Toute la mémoire du monde (All the Memory in the World)
A bibliophile’s paradise: the National Library of France in a classic documentary from 1956.
Rainer Maria Rilke: Archaic Torso of Apollo
there is no place
that does not see you. You must change your life.
Video: Strength
Strength is a film about female physical and emotional strength from the point of view of a weightlifter and narrated by Adele Hampton reciting her poem ‘Lessons in Olympic Weightlifting’.
Ramsha Ashraf: For the One Who Died in the Hands of Wrong Men
Friends were those
Who made her dance naked
with flower-bands around her wrists
Michael T. Young: The Monster Under My Daughter’s Bed
During bedtime my little spider monkey
asked what we’re doing about global warming
Roberta Hatcher: The Knitting Activist
Over under the country unraveling,
the old anxiety returning,
she sits and knits pink hats
for a new generation of women marching.
Doug Anderson: Writers Block
Fenster McGraw is crawling out the back window of his lover’s house and stumbling into the alley pulling up his pants, and is spotted by the ever vigilant widow Winnie Wildwood with her nineteenth century naval spyglass who’s had her suspicions about that Wilson woman anyhow
Sandy Solomon — Little Letter to the Future: Die Off
From the new year, dolphins began dying
by the thousands, and those were the ones we saw,
their bodies washed up on the beaches…
Sarah Gordon: Apertures: Andalusia
Outside, it’s early evening,
the bats lilt through the air
as though they are beautiful.
They are small black doors
into the dark.
Sam Hamill: After Morning Rain
It is September, the end of summer.
My backyard maples turning orange
and red and gold.
Video: Entre Ciel Et Terre (Between the Earth and the Sky)
There are only a few regions in the world where the skies meet the Earth with almost no distinction between the two. La Palma in the Canary islands is one of them.
Baruch November: Beard 16
Most Hebrew Schools cut the Song of Songs
out of the classrooms.
I would have liked to learn how thighs can be of gold
