Rachel Hadas: Three Poems
Wait. Something I had never thought to see
again clanks forward from obscurity-
that creaky train I’d once been riding on,
a journey slow and grim.
Desne A. Crossley: Something I Came Across
Yesterday, I was culling through papers to throw out and came across a letter from my mother to her father. She’s trying to cushion the news that no one will tell him. He’s dying of cancer.
Video: Cookie & Zo’e | Segregation 60 years apart
A Georgia Family Wrestles With School Choice 60 Years After Desegregation.
Eloise Goldsmith: ‘Some really sick sh*t’ | Kristi Noem tours a megaprison in El Salvador
“If hell exists, Kristi Noem is a shoo-in,” wrote one pastor.
Louise Bogan: The Changed Woman
The cracked glass fuses at a touch,
The wound heals over, and is set
In the whole flesh, and is not much
Quite to remember or forget.
Rebecca Gordon: Trump Rages to Snuff Out Democracy’s Candle
Allow me to stipulate that I do not wish to die. In fact, had anyone consulted me about the construction of the universe, I would have made my views on … Continue reading
James Crews: Beech Trees in Spring
Perhaps they need the reassurance,
or maybe they’re here to lend music
to the silence of winter
Derrick Z. Jackson: EPA Staff Stand Firm As Administration Lobs Cuts, Baseless Accusations, and Cruelty
A decimated EPA means less scrutiny for another Flint water crisis, less eyeballs on Superfund sites, and limited ability to investigate toxic contamination after train derailments, such as the incident two years ago in East Palestine, Ohio.
Nidia Hernández: Miami Book Fair 2016 (Spanish and English versions)
a poet and a tree
are always interchangeable
Erica Chenoweth, et al: Resistance is alive and well in the United States
Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches of 2017, but research shows they are far more numerous and frequent — while also shifting to more powerful forms of resistance.
Ma Yongbo: Father’s Little Boat (English and Chinese)
She sits beside him all night,
watching the Father’s darkness,
listening to the careful breath of the dark,
listening to the broken winds of another world.
William D. Hartung: The New Age Militarists
According to this view, the rise of the West wasn’t due to “the superiority of its ideas or values or religion… but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.”
Jane C. Miller: Two Poems
What’s ahead
horses see only
by degrees, the way love ends,
no one touching in the dark.
Abby Zimet: No One Cares We Grieve When We Bury Our Children
Of over 600 Palestinians killed this week in savage new US-funded Israeli bombings, officials say over 40% were children in the bloodiest few days of a bloody campaign Israeli leaders call “only the beginning.”
