Brett Wilkins: ‘We Are All Culpable’: Matt Nelson Self-Immolates to Protest Israel’s Gaza Onslaught
In a video, Nelson said he would set himself ablaze “to pressure Israel to end the genocide in Gaza.”
Jim Daniels: Roaming the Galleries
No one ever stopped on Rome Street in Warren, Michigan,
to set up their easel and paint, not even on John B.
after 6 members of the Park family died in a Christmas fire
Alfred Corn: Instagram posts of Dr. Ali Tahrawi
Tired as if we were dead and lived again and suffered all kinds of pains and died again and again every day, in this hell of life, as if this is it, forever, as if this genocide would never end, and as if death is the only way out!
Traci Brimhall: Museum of Fire
On the first story my son and I make the history of fire,
on the second he wants to make where we are, the slow
smolder of Kansas
Charles Davidson: Donald Trump and an Insider’s View of Nazi Germany
IT WAS THE LATE 1930s IN GERMANY. Adolf Hitler had ascended to the chancellorship of the Third Reich in 1933.
Pablo Otavalo: Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
cutthroat, villain, body carved in light cut through a valley of darkness the gods and us and saints sickly and angry and Christ himself a body. Vagrant your thoughts and … Continue reading
Anya Jabour: How a survey of over 2,000 women in the 1920s changed the way Americans thought about female sexuality
Katharine Bement Davis was able to show that it was normal for women to have sex for pleasure.
Ernesto Cardenal: Prayer for Marilyn Monroe
Lord,
welcome this girl known throughout the world as Marilyn Monroe,
although that was not her real name
Rebecca Gordon: A Personal Meditation on Growing Old In a Catastrophic Age
Passing the Torch while Broke
Archibald MacLeish: Ars Poetica
A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds.
Roshni Ahmed: 23 Years After 9/11, Are We Any Safer?
True justice for the lives lost on 9/11 and during the U.S.’ war on terror would require us to put an end to overfunding violence and war.
Sean Sexton: Whelmed+
I tap out my pipe, aware of the grand majesty
of a morning taking shape—all the breezes of the
yester-day settle like complaint grown silent.
Abby Zimet: OMG Now They’re Coming For Our Cats and Chairs and Ducks
Sheesh. The Crazy Train just keeps clattering on.
Nidia Hernández: Refugiada | A refugee
the country in a foreign film
where I live now
I’m alone with the trees
