Fred Johnston: The Summer Before We Were Killed in the War
We’d double scull the river, splitting the river
Like a scalpel through silk
George Yancy: Protesters Show Courage for Gaza as Leaders Show Cowardice
Amid a growing movement, there’s hope that a liberated Palestine will exist within our lifetime, says Alexandra Aladham.
Mandy Fessenden-Brauer: Distorted Dreams About Palestine
I wrote this seventeen years after I’d lived in Gaza, because people didn’t seem to understand when I tried to share what it was like to live there…
Abby Zimet: To See Our Humanity
Israeli forces just dropped U.S.-made bombs on displaced Gazans, mostly women and children, sleeping in a UN school in Nuseirat refugee camp, killing at least 40 and injuring hundreds in yet another massacre of innocents that “contradicts all human values.”
Laurence Musgrove: Surely
wondering what we’d
have to do, to leave behind,
to lose, to grieve without stopping
Jason Irwin: A Slice of the American Dream
After my parents’ divorce was made official and my mother was forced to return to the workforce, we suddenly were labeled low-income.
Pascale Petit: The Moor Horses
And isn’t your blood free as a feral pony, coursing
through the uplands of your body?
Baron Wormser: After Poetry Month
The poet tries to be canny while practicing an uncanny art.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: Self-Portrait as Tuning Fork
and you quiver
as if struck by the great hand
of what is true
Video: Mush Luv
Tony and Ajani, two mushroom foragers based in Minneapolis, spend the day foraging at a local park and musing on the power of nature.
Aidan Rooney: Bel-Air by Louis-Philippe Dalembert
those alleys seven times knifed then again then always
to be part of the tight knit gathered round over a sewer cover
to watch as they germinate
the stars no one of us had sown
Jamie Beran: Open Letter to Joe Biden on Behalf of Jewish Americans | Stop Sending Israel Offensive Weapons
The violence will increase the heart-wrenching death toll, increase the number of calls for a ceasefire, and decrease your poll numbers — straight through the election.
Video: Hala Alyan | Stop Israel’s Ongoing War Crimes Against the People of Gaza
HALA ALYAN is the author of the novel “Salt Houses”, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and four award-winning collections of poetry, most recently “The Twenty-Ninth Year.”
Michelle D. Holmes, MD: What accounts for the racial disparity in breast cancer survival?
Studies show that the lack of Black doctors may contribute to the disparity.
