Anything But Normal
I thought it would be a good idea to teach them mindfulness practice to ease their anxiety from war.
Folkcal Fraim 7
We write with light but the true page of the world, darkness, is what we write on.
On the Importance of Poetic Resistance: “No Sign” by Peter Balakian
Balakian enacts how poetic resistance to easy answers might be a way to avoid the dangers of refusing to learn from the past.
The War Against Human Creativity
GPT-3 may also mark the death of human painting and drawing.
The Map of Poetry, Baghdad, 2003
Slowly, as if building a wall of words, she was re-shelving thousands of burned and abused books.
Original or Backwards
Nowhere in the Bible will you find bootstraps, antidepressants, or a good therapist.
On Teaching Creative Writing to Ukrainian Students
They are suffering so that Europe can live in peace.
A Prayer for My Daughter
I was simply tongue-tied by all that my daughter’s reporting was bearing witness to.
Between Fury and Peace: The Many Arts of Derek Walcott
A special issue devoted to Derek Walcott.
Dissolving Boundaries
The wealth of Hustvedt’s intellectual trespassing permeates this book.
Apartheid America
I have to believe that the “whites-only democracy” I grew up with in South Africa will never take hold anywhere again.
A Shotgun Blast of Tribalization
If healthy relationships are nourishing meals, then social media is cotton candy—a sweet, vanishing sugar rush.
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.
Poetry as Secular Prayer
The writer places him or herself firmly between one moment of creation and the next.