Helen Hunt Jackson: Poppies on the Wheat
Along Ancona’s hills the shimmering heat,
A tropic tide of air with ebb and flow
Bathes all the fields of wheat until they glow
Like flashing seas of green
Julia Conley: Biden’s Own Policy Requires US to Stop Arming Israel
Amnesty International was one of 25 human rights groups telling the administration to follow its own guidelines.
Jianqing Zheng: Moonlight
Always after dinner, Yao, who memorized almost all of Beethoven’s musical pieces, played Moonlight in the living room.
Joan E. Bauer: The Visionary, the Provocateur
Mike Davis grew up Catholic, bullied by rednecks
in Fontana, a place he later called, with affection,
that ‘junkyard of dreams.’
Lewis M. Steel: We Should Listen to Rev Barber on White Poverty and Multi-racial Organizing
The latest book by the Poor People’s Campaign co-chair shows how racial division keeps both Black and white communities poor—and lays out a real vision to defeat it.
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan: Beware the Republican Plot to Steal the 2024 Election
Republicans are mounting an all-out assault on the election process that journalist Ari Berman refers to as a “five-alarm fire for democracy.”
Scott Silsbe: Two Poems
That was the summer of the unrelenting wildflower smoke.
George Yancy: The Violent “Othering” of Palestinians
Anti-Arab, anti-Muslim and political racism overlap in othering of Palestinians, says Palestinian scholar Yasmeen Daher.
Hiba Abu Nada: I Grant You Refuge
I grant you refuge in knowing
that the dust will clear,
and they who fell in love and died together
will one day laugh.
Video: The Blossom, by William Blake
Performed by Wienananda, a group of Sahaja yogis in Vienna.
Margo Berdeshevsky: After the Auguries…
Where are medicines for vengeances, where
are cures in what palm of whose open hand.
Marc Bekoff: Tasty Bacon or Fellow Being? The Paradox of How We Relate to the Intelligence and Emotions of Pigs
Every piece of bacon comes from a unique personality.
karla k. morton: Chow Chow
It could be a religion, this relish—
what’s left over,
fall’s last stand
before the death-breath of frost.
Lourdes Medrano: Who’s Helping Asylum Seekers?
Asylum seekers hoping to enter the U.S. are turning to grassroots organizations for information, safety, and dignity.
