Olha Poliukhovych 4/4/23 Olha Poliukhovych 4/4/23

To Break a Window: The Phenomenology of a Wartime Gesture

I ask myself whether Kosach’s gesture was born of hope or of despair.

Tony Schwalm 4/4/23 Tony Schwalm 4/4/23

Dog Food

I know what it means for my enemies to become dung on the earth.

Larissa Babij 12/6/22 Larissa Babij 12/6/22

Ukrainian is a Place I Want to Live

The personal choice to speak Ukrainian is part of what creates the Ukrainian political nation fighting for its freedom.

Featured Poet Series 12/6/22 Featured Poet Series 12/6/22

Featured Poet: Rachel DeWoskin

The first in our Featured Poet Series, we’re honored to highlight the work of acclaimed poet Rachel DeWoskin.

Martin Edmunds 12/6/22 Martin Edmunds 12/6/22

Rhyme and Reason

You can’t contradict an image or a song; you can’t be argued down if you end in apostrophe or revelation.

Thomas Sayers Ellis 12/6/22 Thomas Sayers Ellis 12/6/22

Folkcal Fraim 8

Word selfies — the selves of the word as it flies from one form of itself to another freer form of itself.

Andrew Grainger 12/6/22 Andrew Grainger 12/6/22

Notes of a Poll Observer

It’s more than enough to remind us emphatically what we stand to lose.

Dan Hunter 12/6/22 Dan Hunter 12/6/22

The Attention of a Goldfish

Big Tech is changing how all of us think, even changing the structure of the brain.

Kai Maristed 12/6/22 Kai Maristed 12/6/22

Fall Notes From Paris

There’s a surreal element to these balmy late fall days in Paris.

Jill McCorkle 12/6/22 Jill McCorkle 12/6/22

Bugaboo

There’s a break between two parties who share a country. What is best for future generations?

Rebecca Pacheco 12/6/22 Rebecca Pacheco 12/6/22

Reflections on the Middle of Life

I currently reside in middle age, though the term seems presumptuous.

Douglas Penick 12/6/22 Douglas Penick 12/6/22

Alexander Dreier: In the Wild

Alexander did not merely accept his diagnosis, he embraced the disease as a sequence of adventures and revelations.

Lisa Allen 10/4/22 Lisa Allen 10/4/22

Utopia Lost

Clifton’s slogan was “Pay What You Wish, Dine Free Unless Delighted.”

Lila Dlaboha 10/4/22 Lila Dlaboha 10/4/22

Anything But Normal

I thought it would be a good idea to teach them mindfulness practice to ease their anxiety from war.

Thomas Sayers Ellis 10/4/22 Thomas Sayers Ellis 10/4/22

Folkcal Fraim 7

We write with light but the true page of the world, darkness, is what we write on.

Andrew Grainger 10/4/22 Andrew Grainger 10/4/22

Dispatch From the Coast

Boating in general, like lobstering, is on the generational ebb.

Yoni Hammer-Kossoy 10/4/22 Yoni Hammer-Kossoy 10/4/22

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.

Dan Hunter 10/4/22 Dan Hunter 10/4/22

The War Against Human Creativity

GPT-3 may also mark the death of human painting and drawing.

Jacki Lyden 10/4/22 Jacki Lyden 10/4/22

The Map of Poetry, Baghdad, 2003

Slowly, as if building a wall of words, she was re-shelving thousands of burned and abused books.

Jill McCorkle 10/4/22 Jill McCorkle 10/4/22

Original or Backwards

Nowhere in the Bible will you find bootstraps, antidepressants, or a good therapist.