D.H. Lawrence: Terra Incognita
and grapes, and ghouls, and ghosts and green moonlight
and ruddy-orange limbs stirring the limbo
of the unknown air
Jane Braxton Little: Inferno
Climate Disaster Is Turning the Planet into a Tinderbox.
Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum: Heaven-Fire
The boy is not my blood
Though “Son” is the only name I have for “He-
Who-Will-Dance-To-Just-About-Anything,”
Matthew J. Parker: Taxation by Citation
The collateral damage caused by the Pledge is everywhere, from crumbling infrastructure and piss poor cyber security to underfunded police and debtors’ jails.
Elizabeth Mercurio: Three Poems
Years have passed
since I last tried to take my life.
Nicole Froio: Transforming Ourselves to Transform the World
The concept of cuerpo-territorio (“body-territory”) around which the Xinka women in Guatemala organize themselves recognizes the interconnectedness between human bodies and all other living beings.
Peter Makuck: Tiger Swallowtails
clusters of fluttering wings
yellow with black stripes
in and out
of the white and orange lantana
Brett Wilkins: Racism Poses Public Health Threat to Millions Worldwide: Lancet Studies
Until racism and xenophobia are universally recognized as significant drivers of determinants of health, the root causes of discrimination will remain in the shadows and continue to cause and exacerbate health inequities.
Dawn Potter: Arcadia, 1939
warmth of bread baking, a cardinal alight in a branching
oak, white bed, linens floating in air, a table
laid in an arbor’s shade—
Video: Long Line of Ladies
This film intimately observes the months-long process of one girl, her family, and their tight-knit Karuk community as they come together to prepare for her Ihuk, the coming-of-age ceremony for girls.
Baron Wormser: Lives of the Heroes
When I was a boy, around the ages of nine and ten, I read dozens of biographies. I can still see the books.
Video: The Ref
A referee struggles to maintain control over a 2nd grade basketball game.
Peter Blair: After Image
In December, the shadows of tree trunks
stay long all day, dark compasses pointing
northwest to northeast by afternoon.
Veronica Frans, Jianguo Liu: Protecting 30% of Earth’s surface for nature
A biodiversity crisis is reducing the variety of life on Earth. Under pressure from land and water pollution, development, overhunting, poaching, climate change and species invasions, approximately 1 million plant and animal species are at risk of extinction.
