Julia Conley: UN Urges Global Cooperation as Quarter of Humanity Lacks Safe Drinking Water
“Water is our common future and we need to act together to share it equitably and manage it sustainably,” said the director-general of UNESCO.
William Butler Yeats: A Prayer for My Daughter
How but in custom and in ceremony
Are innocence and beauty born?
Abby Zimet: Proud Boys Get Beat Up At NYC Drag Queen Story Hour
“Nazis are a real problem,” said one New Yorker. “Drag queens are not.”
James Davis May: Moonflowers
We praise the world by making
others see what we see. So now she points and feels
what must be pride when the bloom unlocks itself
from itself. And then she turns to look at me.
Matthew J. Parker: Educating Girls | An Earth-Saving Enterprise
Educating girls is a critical means of heading off climate change.
Liza Katz Duncan: Bayshore Elegy
You’d have to be crazy to call home
a strip of sand that will be underwater
in fifty years and oh,
my God, what does that make me?
Daja E. Henry: Environmental Justice Activists in Memphis Are Finally Turning the Tide
Black women, particularly mothers, are leading efforts to treat people currently harmed by toxic neighborhoods and prevent future damage.
Sydney Lea: A Monk After Dark
One boot sags like him in his cubicle’s corner.
He drops the other to the floor with a grimace.
Shimri Zameret: A mass wave of army refusal offers a transformative moment for Israel
A new movement of Israeli army refusers has put the government in a crisis, presenting an opportunity for those fighting the occupation of Palestine.
Carolyn Miller: Street Trees of San Francisco
despite everything
that keeps going wrong—the ginkgos,
opening tiny green fans.
James C. Nieh: Unlocking secrets of the honeybee dance language
Bees learn and culturally transmit their communication skills.
Baron Wormser: The Good Life
It’s plain that the world as we know it is literally choking on its machine- and money-driven complexity.
Audio: Grateful Dead Live at Barton Hall, Cornell University, 1977-05-08
Generally considered one of The Grateful Dead’s best performances…
Barbara Hamby: My Translation
I am translating the world into mockingbird, into blue jay,
into cat-bombing avian obbligato, because I want
more noise, more bells, more senseless tintinnabulation
