Edison Jennings: Flocks of Crowned Spirits
the rich escape to seaside estates
sheltering in place a few sanitized days
behind elaborate wrought iron gates
Video: Happiness Family Farm
Rosata, her husband, Prosper, and son, Japhety, work year-round on their small farm to harvest fresh fruits and vegetables for the Portland community.
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley: In the Other World
Our beloved lay down and then eloped
to that other world.
Kaveh Bassiri: Afterword
In the Quran, God taught Adam the names of all things. Even the angels didn’t know the names. Do we carry the weight of these words with us? Do they hold us responsible?
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley: When I Shut the Door
The news arrived by e-mail — a scribble of a long, single sentence, broken up, like little chunks of wood, the way a year is broken up into months and weeks, days, hours.
Kaveh Bassiri: Writing Persian
During the hostage crisis, when I was Albanian,
my history teacher conceded, “You’ve to be born into English
to be its rightful citizen.” I wanted to be an American poet,
but was a Persian settler.
Richard Levine: Day Labor
This is New York, drinking coffee in plain
blue paper cups at dawn. In every tongue,
the dream begins with showing up.
Bunkong Tuon: Fishing for Trey Platoo
Cambodians and Vietnamese, once enemies,
fish side by side on the same American pier.
Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor: Gezundheit
The way this strange, non-English wish
commuted in a grandmother’s Yiddish
mouth, zay gezunt
Paola Corso: American Future
Snapshot of my father as a young man
standing at the top of hillside steps
Lornet Turnbull: What Happens When a Person Is Deported?
A new guide provides resources to help those being returned to their countries of origin.
Three stories: People fight the system and win
A farmer prevails against Monsanto in court. Refugees find ingenious ways to scale Trump’s wall. And 100 cities around the world provide free public transportation everyday for everyone.
Regina Schwartz: Immigration | “Loving Justice”
When we fail to respond humanely to refugees, we not only deny their vulnerability, we also deny our own.
Julia Paley: The End of Asylum?
Trump’s asylum ban and kangaroo tent courts threaten to destroy a pillar of international humanitarian law. What can we do?
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