Adrienne Maree Brown: Accountable to Our Ancestors
Lately it feels like ancestors are talking to me all the time.
David Rivard: Maria’s Yellow Coat
a sun that floats the way
Maria’s knitted newsboy cap did once,
just above the horizon
Mike Schneider: Gerald Stern (1925-2022)
In a flashy white-straw hat, leaning on his bright red metal cane, step-by-step silently making his way to a seat at the podium, Stern commanded the audience without a word.
Molly Fisk: In Other News
I can easily find
the edges now between anger, rage,
and disappointment by what’s running
underneath and stop before I lash out.
Rachel Hadas: Hypocrisy is beneath them – political figures in the Trump era don’t bother concealing their misdeeds
There seems to be no sense of shame or its cousin, guilt, in our time.
Tony Gloeggler: Social Story
how happy and lucky
it made us feel to know
we had someone we loved
who loved us back
Derrick Z. Jackson: Structural Racism in STEM Programs Needs Correcting According to New Study
A new study offers stark quantitative data showing the continued blight of structural racism in academic STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) programs in the United States.
Elizabeth Romero: Happiness
I live in a pink truck at the edge of the sky.
Leonore Wilson: Three Poems About the Fires
their beaks held
tiny morsels of tenderness
as if they were ripped
from temple vaults…
Charles Davidson: Vincent van Gogh | “Best and Deepest” Self-Portraits
IF ONE TAKES THE TIME to study Vincent van Gogh’s numerous self-portraits, it is apparent that there are several “Vincents” dwelling within the one Vincent.
Video: Urban Oasis – a love letter to San Francisco
A journey through the contrasting urban and natural spaces within San Francisco’s 49 square miles.
John Zheng: Just Like Oz
George Drew, a prolific poet of 9 poetry collections and 2 chapbooks, delights the reader with a new book, a collection of essays about his favorite poets whom he calls the wizards with magical talent.
Zane McNeill: Why glue your head to a painting?
The recent climate actions targeting museums are themselves a form of participatory, socially-engaged art.
Kay Boyle: Monody to the Sound of Zithers
I have wanted other things more than lovers …
I have desired peace, intimately to know
The secret curves of deep-bosomed contentment,
To learn by heart things beautiful and slow.
