Derrick Z. Jackson: House Speaker Mike Johnson’s Climate Change Playbook — Deny the Science, Take the Funding
It took no time for Mike Johnson to establish a hefty carbon footprint as new Speaker of the House. In the first legislative act under his watch, his Republican majority last month … Continue reading
Mosab Abu Toha, et al: Ceasefire Cento
Each morning
I wake
in the shape
of an ancient
song
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
Judith R. Robinson: Black Scar
oh Danny boy
who is no more
he whom I loved
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.
Sandy Solomon: Diary of Amelia Stewart Knight
Commenced the ascent of the Blue Mountains.
A lovely morning; all hands delighted
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.
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.
Mike Vargo: ‘Cat’s Cradle,’ Community, and Fascism
Maybe Bokonon had a point. Bokonon, for those not familiar, is a character in Kurt Vonnegut’s 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle. On a fictional Caribbean island, a holy man lives in the mountains. … Continue reading
Rachel Hadas: 460 Riverside Drive
What ghostly messenger
was rattling away unseen
on the other side of the door?
D.W. Fenza: Why the Department of English Needs a Drastic Renovation
The English department had fashioned itself after the kind of revelation the English Department could no longer provide. —from the poem “Berkley Hills Living” by Jessica Laser ~ The English … Continue reading
Jason Baldinger: a howard johnson’s prayer
I float on dreams that stretch
middle mississippi to machu picchu
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?
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
