Andreas Karolas: The Climate Emergency is now. We must act.
How ready are we for the climate impacts that are here now and are on track to become scarily worse?
Molly Fisk: Full Flower Moon Lunar Eclipse
It was me, stepping out the front door
every six or eight minutes to look up
into a cloudy sky that darkened
and opened.
Abby Zimet: Iran’s Women Rise Up – and Hack Off Their Hair – for “Woman, Life, Freedom”
Tens of thousands of people have thronged the streets in capital cities around the world for the last two weeks to protest the murder in police custody of Mahsa Amini.
Majid Naficy: The Day Chador Is Not Forced
The day will come when my sisters
No longer wear forced chadors.
Let that day be in summer
So that we can go for a picnic.
Valarie Kaur: Forgiveness
Forgiveness was not a substitute for justice; it had energized us in the
fight for justice.
John Balaban: Two Poems
Three men dancing. Not drunk, just immensely amused
knowing that soon enough there would be only the wind
shushing its sad music along an empty shore.
William Astore: Integrity Optional
There is something distinctly dishonorable about waging wars kept viable only by lies, obfuscation, and propaganda.
Julie Bruck: The Last Two Jews of Kabul
When his roommate finally expired at eighty,
Zebulon said he was relieved to be rid of Isaak.
The pair had held out in a decaying synagogue
under Mujahedeen, Taliban, Americans, more Taliban.
Baruch November: The Fountain of Light and Forgiveness
Must we mourn ourselves
before our passing?
Edward L Greenstein: When your principles are at stake, take inspiration from Job
The deity astonishingly salutes Job when he speaks his truth to the deity’s power.
Audio: Mary Oliver reads “Wild Geese”
Mary Oliver reads “Wild Geese” for Seattle Arts & Lectures’ 2007/08 Season at Benaroya Hall on February 4, 2008.
Nicholas P. Money: The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence
In recent years, a body of remarkable experiments have shown that fungi operate as individuals, engage in decision-making, are capable of learning, and possess short-term memory.
Paul Christensen: The Cornhole Tournament
What happens when a large segment of a population finds itself displaced, bullied off the bench?
Elsa Gidlow: Constancy
My sister, I keep faith with love, not lovers.
