Askold Melnyczuk 10/4/22 Askold Melnyczuk 10/4/22

On Teaching Creative Writing to Ukrainian Students

They are suffering so that Europe can live in peace.

Thomas O’Grady 10/4/22 Thomas O’Grady 10/4/22

A Prayer for My Daughter

I was simply tongue-tied by all that my daughter’s reporting was bearing witness to.

Qais Akbar Omar 10/4/22 Qais Akbar Omar 10/4/22

As the Bodies of Victims Pile Up in Ukraine

I know war and its aftermath too well.

Arrowsmith Press 8/2/22 Arrowsmith Press 8/2/22

Between Fury and Peace: The Many Arts of Derek Walcott

A special issue devoted to Derek Walcott.

John J. Clayton 2/22/22 John J. Clayton 2/22/22

Memory Loss

This father seems to Ben a father he doesn’t know how to know.

Thomas Sayers Ellis 2/22/22 Thomas Sayers Ellis 2/22/22

Folkcal Fraim 6

I used to think of a lens as a tree that could be used to climb anything.

Thea Goodman 2/22/22 Thea Goodman 2/22/22

Dissolving Boundaries

The wealth of Hustvedt’s intellectual trespassing permeates this book.

Nidia Hernández 2/22/22 Nidia Hernández 2/22/22

An Interview with Cristina Peri Rossi

“Poetry is a perception, a state of mind.”

Jean Hey 2/22/22 Jean Hey 2/22/22

Apartheid America

I have to believe that the “whites-only democracy” I grew up with in South Africa will never take hold anywhere again.

Dan Hunter 2/22/22 Dan Hunter 2/22/22

A Shotgun Blast of Tribalization

If healthy relationships are nourishing meals, then social media is cotton candy—a sweet, vanishing sugar rush.

Askold Melnyczuk 2/22/22 Askold Melnyczuk 2/22/22

The Sound of Truth: Writers for Democratic Action, Here and Elsewhere

Some 2,500 other writers joined us in our efforts in the somewhat grandiose-sounding task of supporting democracy.

Jo-Ann Mort 2/22/22 Jo-Ann Mort 2/22/22

Poetry as Secular Prayer

The writer places him or herself firmly between one moment of creation and the next.

Douglas Penick 2/22/22 Douglas Penick 2/22/22

Without a Foothold Found

We exist in this world, endlessly devouring and excreting data.

Joyce Peseroff 2/22/22 Joyce Peseroff 2/22/22

On Tom Sleigh’s “The King’s Touch”

The King’s Touch is an extraordinary pleasure not to be missed.

Jess Skyleson 2/22/22 Jess Skyleson 2/22/22

A Source of Poetic Respiration

Computer-generated poetry might be exactly what we, at this time, truly need.

Kate Tsurkan 2/22/22 Kate Tsurkan 2/22/22

The Rise and Fall of Foto & Video Magazine

Although Foto & Video is no more, with it Dmitry Kiyan shaped modern Russian photography as we know it today.

Sven Birkerts 12/14/21 Sven Birkerts 12/14/21

Exposures

Looking at old photographs from the time of my parents’ youth, I think how complicated such looking is.

Sam Cha 12/14/21 Sam Cha 12/14/21

Lloyd Schwartz's “Who's on First?”

Lloyd Schwartz is, by any measure, a potent force in American letters.

John J. Clayton 12/14/21 John J. Clayton 12/14/21

How To Heal Parkinson’s

A lesson from my mother: stop fighting the loss.

Julia Fiedorczuk 12/14/21 Julia Fiedorczuk 12/14/21

Notes from a Strange War

I think what we witness on the Polish-Belorussian border is a war — a strange, new kind of war with new forms of violence.