Margo Berdeshevsky: Beyond My Used-up Words
If I say
what I know of plenty and of empty,
how will I sleep, or dream of herons?
ERIN AUBRY KAPLAN: CAN WOMEN WIN?
It will take concerted action to ensure that women belong in the House.
James Crews: Two Poems
Why do we try
to rush delight, strong-arm joy
into busy lives, when so much
beauty already seeds itself beneath
our restless feet?
Brett Wilkins: New ICC Complaint Over Journalists Killed by Israel in Gaza
Reporters Without Borders says it has “reasonable grounds for thinking that some of these journalists were deliberately killed and that the others were the victims of deliberate IDF attacks against civilians.”
Alice Friman: Confidentially Pink
When I stepped down from the train
and he wasn’t there
I didn’t panic. I knew he’d come
for I had dressed in pink–
Rachel Wahl: 6 ways to encourage political discussion on college campuses
Students in fact want to have difficult conversations across divides, but they need support from faculty and other facilitators in order for these discussions to go well.
Sean Sexton: Unrecognizable
A friend of my sister attended the reading—
sat in the back of the hall—coming forth only after
everyone had gone.
Pamela Uschuk: Return of the Warbling Vireo
Hear me please, hear
me, the melodic vireo cries, hear me
tumbles time
from his lonely beak on fire
Video: The Watchmaker
Finding chaos and precision in all things – a philosophy of watchmaking.
Angele Ellis: “no margin on these pages of skin history”
In Every Hard Sweetness, Sheila Carter-Jones weaves a personal and cultural history of racism into poetry.
Jose Padua: Remember
Remember all ye tedious millionaires the bent
honeysuckle whose white flowers bloom in the
late spring. Remember the burden of the books
you burn…
Edward Carver | ‘For Gaza’ Hundreds of Students Stage Walkout at Harvard Commencement Ceremony
Students called it an “unduly harsh punishment” that threatens the future of the seniors, and a professor warned it could lead to a “faculty rebellion.”
Mandy Fessenden-Brauer: Funeral in Gaza
I’d been in Gaza only a few days when I attended a funeral with my husband who was working with UNRWA. Outside the wake house, soldiers were revving up their … Continue reading
JESSICA GARCIA: ‘BLUELINING’ LEAVES CLIMATE VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES WITHOUT HOME INSURANCE
Insurers are pulling out of areas prone to climate risk — even as they insure the fossil fuel companies contributing to that risk.
