Tom Sleigh 10/10/23 Tom Sleigh 10/10/23

Unexpected Magnitudes: On David Rivard’s “Some of You Will Know”

Rivard has a genius for knowing when emotion is in danger of turning into emoting.

Laima Vince 10/10/23 Laima Vince 10/10/23

Transforming Trauma Through Writing

Our workshop had given them permission to feel their emotions again.

Valerie Duff-Strautmann 6/20/23 Valerie Duff-Strautmann 6/20/23

We Have Other Plans: Review

In their two most recent collections, Graham and Mayer showcase their talent in poems that feel alive, fragile, endangered, profuse.

Thomas Sayers Ellis 6/20/23 Thomas Sayers Ellis 6/20/23

Folkcal Fraim 10

I mistook Sontag for Susan Sontag.

Featured Fiction Series 6/20/23 Featured Fiction Series 6/20/23

Featured Fiction: Jonny Baltazar Lipshin

We’re honored to showcase our first featured fiction, with the story Frogtown. Introduction by John Fulton.

Featured Poet Series 6/20/23 Featured Poet Series 6/20/23

Featured Poet: Sarah Chayes

This issue highlights the poems of award-winning journalist Sarah Chayes, introduced by Askold Melnyczuk.

Dan Hunter 6/20/23 Dan Hunter 6/20/23

The Day the World Flipped

Will AI explain to humans that the joke is on us?

Jacki Lyden 6/20/23 Jacki Lyden 6/20/23

Tell me Something Good

I hated to leave public radio. It was a beautiful place. But leave me, it did.

Vasyl Makhno 6/20/23 Vasyl Makhno 6/20/23

Venetian Lion: on Joseph Brodsky

After Brodsky’s death, his beloved Venetian lions stand as silent witnesses and guardians of his poetry.

Thomas O’Grady 6/20/23 Thomas O’Grady 6/20/23

The Poet & the Fiddler: A Musing on Seamus Heaney

The Given Note’s mournful spirit would certainly have been in the air when the poem was read at Heaney’s funeral.

Jessica Small 6/20/23 Jessica Small 6/20/23

Masks and Condoms

I have been thinking a lot about masks and condoms and consent, living through both a pandemic and a teenage daughter.

Volodymyr Yermolenko 6/20/23 Volodymyr Yermolenko 6/20/23

Report from Ukraine, 2023

Death for us is no longer an abstract word. It is not something beyond your doors.

Bianca Bellová 4/4/23 Bianca Bellová 4/4/23

What With This Speedy World And All?

We are living through the most massive shift in human history.

Robin Davidson 4/4/23 Robin Davidson 4/4/23

Review: Motherfield

Cimafiejeva considers what happens when language is under such intense political pressure that it collapses.

Thomas Sayers Ellis 4/4/23 Thomas Sayers Ellis 4/4/23

Folkcal Fraim 9

After all, they were my White People, not his, my captures, not the community’s.

Leila Farsakh 4/4/23 Leila Farsakh 4/4/23

The Summer of 1982

I needed to figure out what it meant to be Palestinian while living in exile.

Featured Poet Series 4/4/23 Featured Poet Series 4/4/23

Featured Poet: Jeffrey Gustavson

We’re honored to highlight the work of acclaimed poet Jeffrey Gustavson, with an introduction from Martin Edmunds.

Dan Hunter 4/4/23 Dan Hunter 4/4/23

A Million Points of Mendacity

ChatGPT is a powerful tool for injecting lies into our political discourse.

Askold Melnyczuk 4/4/23 Askold Melnyczuk 4/4/23

Who Owns Our Imagination?

It all begins with an ideaIs the Crisis in Humanities a Deliberately Manufactured Crisis of the Imagination?.

John Okrent 4/4/23 John Okrent 4/4/23

Include Everything

On Robert Pinsky’s Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet