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.
Carmel Mawle: The Calisia
When Mama and Baba pulled us from under their bed, we stood where our wall had been and looked over the smoking city.
Richard Hoffman: Mourning Gaza
What does the pale infant turning to dust
in the gray light deep in the powdery rubble know
of the torn hands of her parents digging to find her?
Bill McKibben: To Avoid Utter Ruin, We Must Turn Off the Fossil Fuel Volcano
We need to stand in awe for a moment before the scope of Earth’s long history. And then we need to get the hell to work.
Kathryn Levy: Three Poems
The geese are calling—this is
time to depart. They gather and sink and
soar toward somewhere.
Michael Simms: Banned!
Vox Populi is not alone in experiencing censorship from Facebook which has often been accused of blocking messages critical of Israel and supportive of Palestine.
Betsy Sholl: Helium
Oh, sweet dream,
stay with lovers afloat and doe-eyed donkeys,
don’t let the wind shift to newsclips of burnt
steeples, smoldering hospitals and schools.
Jose Padua: The Shape I’m In
it was the middle of a Lower East Side winter and the heat
in my apartment that night was up so high, after being completely out
for a week, that I couldn’t help but feel sexy, knowing I had pork buns
in my tiny fridge
Abby Zimet: U.S. Attorney In Charge of Trump Almost Shooting Is Haitian-American
We love the smell of irony and karma in the morning.
Elise Paschen: Two Poems
Ruby-Throated, she
undaunted, taps the porch screen,
types tiny missives.
Peter Yeung: The Rights of Nature Prevail Again in Ecuador
The beguiling, mist-covered forest of Los Cedros provides a vision of a future where the rights of the natural world are actively and effectively protected.
Jim Daniels: Roaming the Galleries
No one ever stopped on Rome Street in Warren, Michigan,
to set up their easel and paint, not even on John B.
after 6 members of the Park family died in a Christmas fire
Brett Wilkins: ‘We Are All Culpable’: Matt Nelson Self-Immolates to Protest Israel’s Gaza Onslaught
In a video, Nelson said he would set himself ablaze “to pressure Israel to end the genocide in Gaza.”
Traci Brimhall: Museum of Fire
On the first story my son and I make the history of fire,
on the second he wants to make where we are, the slow
smolder of Kansas
