Nidia Hernández: Río Turbio translated by Rowena Hill
I stopped in front of
the silence of all that distance
of my country being erased
Abby Zimet: Wearin’ Yesterday’s Misfortunes Like A Smile
He’s a poet he’s a picker he’s a prophet he’s a pusher
He’s a pilgrim and a preacher and a problem when he’s stoned
He’s a walking contradiction partly truth and partly fiction
Taking every wrong direction on his lonely way back home
David Kirby: Whatever Happened to Bobby Dunbar?
26 people
were killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre,
among them a first grader whose father was later
confronted by a man who said it was all a hoax
Adam Patric Miller: America’s Natural Born Son
Is his name really Colt Gray? The name sounds like fiction. Glancingly, I looked at pictures and a white woman’s face comes into my mind with the age 53. A … Continue reading
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: Acceptance
Today grief is a long steady rain
Vanessa Chakour: My Innate Connection to Stolen Land
When people are distanced from land, they lose the intimate knowledge necessary to be effective stewards.
Adam Bittleston: September
Into the ripening
Of earth’s great gifts
The mists of autumn
Begin to be woven.
Joan E. Bauer: The Man on the Flying Trapeze
He was a gentle man because he knew he could kill someone.
Video: Tuesday Afternoon
After 33 years in federal prison, 22 of which spent in extreme solitary confinement, Jack Powers embarks into a modern world, journeying across the Northeast to start a new life.
Hart Crane: The Air Plant
The lizard’s throat, held bloated for a fly,
Balloons but warily from this throbbing perch.
Baron Wormser: The Harrowing of Hart Crane (Among Others)
The fate of eloquence in modern times is played out in Crane’s poetry, not in some ultimate fashion but, rather, as a perpetual vision-quest one man puts himself through, a quest in which poetry is, at once, the means and the end.
BBC: Kamala Harris’s Platform
Ms Harris released a detailed policy platform in early September offering voters a look at what a Harris-Walz administration might look like.
Chard deNiord: I Call Out to You
Any moving object must reach halfway on a course before it reaches the end; and because there are an infinite number of halfway points, a moving object never reaches the … Continue reading
Michael Waldman: New Revelations Show Just How Corrupt the Supreme Court Really Is
Call me naïve. I felt confident in asserting that the court was a conservative court, a Federalist Society court, even a Republican court—but not a MAGA court.
