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Mosab Abu Toha, et al: Ceasefire Cento

Each morning
I wake
in the shape
of an ancient
song

November 13, 2023 · 11 Comments

Chard deNiord: The Silence

an elegy for a child or parent or sibling
or friend who’s died at the hand
of the enemy whose God is the same
monotheistic deity with a different name

November 12, 2023 · 6 Comments

Judith R. Robinson: Black Scar

oh Danny boy
who    is no more
he     whom I loved       

November 11, 2023 · 5 Comments

Video: Walt Whitman — “Song of Myself”

Produced by Harvard University, this series of animations looks to poetry to explain what science renders dry and academic.

November 11, 2023 · 1 Comment

Tina Kakadelis: “Killers of the Flower Moon” – Film Review

The film is adapted from a 2017 book of the same name by David Grann, and it chronicles the murders of Osage people in the 1920s in order to steal their oil wealth.

November 9, 2023 · 6 Comments

Michael Kleber-Diggs: The Grove

Planted here as we are, see how we want
to bow and sway with the motion of earth
in sky.

November 8, 2023 · 4 Comments

Video: A mysterious design that appears across millennia

What can we make of a design that shows up over and over in disparate cultures throughout history?

November 4, 2023 · 3 Comments

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: Tonight, When I Turn Right on Ogden

By the time I turn onto the highway toward home
it is fifteen years ago 
and my father is sitting in his favorite chair

November 3, 2023 · 26 Comments

James Crews: The Trouble with Beauty

The trouble with beauty
is the clinging to it,
wanting things to stay
the way they first appeared

November 1, 2023 · 6 Comments

Francis Thompson: The Hound of Heaven

I fled Him down the nights and down the days 
I fled Him down the arches of the years 
I fled Him down the labyrinthine ways 
Of my own mind…

October 31, 2023 · 1 Comment

Video: Skin & Bone

A drifter begins suffering horrifying visions after taking a job on a secluded farm.

October 28, 2023 · Leave a comment

Deena November: The Tree of Life

No one thought this could happen
in America,
except the Jews. We have always known

October 27, 2023 · 9 Comments

Chuck Collins: The Radicalization of Climate Activism

Wynn Bruce self-immolated on the steps of the United States Supreme Court Building, just as the high court was poised to weaken laws regulating carbon emissions.

October 26, 2023 · Leave a comment

Lisa Suhair Majaj: Two Poems

This is a body enfleshed,
like yours. This is a body
broken, like mine.

October 23, 2023 · 5 Comments

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