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Michael Daley: Ground Work

swan, coyote, wolf, swallow, butterfly will multiply and prosper,
wilderness sprout through pavement and skylines

October 10, 2024 · 6 Comments

Dr. Michael Greger: Health Benefits of Coffee

The Beverage Guidance Panel, assembled to provide recommendations on benefits and risks of various beverage categories, found tea and coffee—preferably without creamer or sweetener—tied as the number-two healthiest beverages, second … Continue reading

October 9, 2024 · 16 Comments

Sophie Cabot Black: As to Why We Will Not Stop (Making the Hats)

We have come to know the truth
As no longer true— the old ways do not work
Against the new.

October 9, 2024 · 10 Comments

Alfred Corn: Instagram posts of Dr. Ali Tahrawi (second gathering)

We are dying in the longest nightmare in the history of humanity, with the most disgusting and immoral generation in human existence, witnessing the most human abusing and destructive period.

October 8, 2024 · 5 Comments

Mosab Abu Toha: Shrapnel Looking for Laughter

Shrapnel flies in the dark,
looks for the family’s peals of
laughter hiding behind piles of disfigured
walls and bleeding picture frames.

October 8, 2024 · 22 Comments

Abriel Louise Young: Calling on Friends Across the Veil to Help Us Change History

What is the deepest loss that you have suffered? Have you succeeded in changing yourself to wine? If so, please report back.

October 7, 2024 · 5 Comments

Arlene Weiner: Ghazal

When parting or meeting we wish each other peace.
We show with every greeting that we are lovers of peace.

October 7, 2024 · 10 Comments

Rebecca Senf: Photographer Louis Carlos Bernal memorialized the barrios at the US-Mexican border

Bernal invented a style of art photography while creating an indelible record of life in Southwestern barrios.

October 6, 2024 · 9 Comments

Robert Okaji: Dream Score 

I empty my mother’s ashtray of its treasures—
various picks, the broken watch, a mandolin bridge,
that lock of my wife’s hair—then peer through the amber
glass at a distorted day. What looks back at me?

October 6, 2024 · 15 Comments

Paige Curtis: What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

What if we had systems that loved us and, by extension, the planet?”

October 5, 2024 · 5 Comments

Tony Gloeggler: October

He’s an ex girlfriend’s son
and I’ve known Jesse
since he was five. I decide
not to tell this woman he’s autistic
thinking she can figure it out
if she listens.

October 5, 2024 · 15 Comments

Stuart Sheppard: The War Against Aesthetics in Contemporary Literature 

We are increasingly being told that it is not important how well a poet writes; rather, the crucial issue is what a poet says.

October 4, 2024 · 24 Comments

Amy Lowell: The Broken Fountain

All day I have watched the purple vine leaves
Fall into the water.
And now in the moonlight they still fall,
But each leaf is fringed with silver.

October 4, 2024 · 27 Comments

Jennifer Horney: Health risks are rising in mountain areas flooded by Hurricane Helene and cut off from clean water, power and hospitals

Contaminated water is one of the leading health risks, but residents also face harm to mental health.

October 3, 2024 · 9 Comments

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