Helen Benedict
A Lonesome Journey to Freedom: The Hidden Struggles of LGBTQ Refugees
LGBTQ refugees, trapped in the brutal camps of Greece, are unprotected and rarely talked about.
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Fo(lk)cal Fr-aim 5
Some photographs guide the world back to itself by pulling the world apart, then putting it back very quickly.
Andrew Grainger
The God Gap
If God works in mysterious ways, Luke’s death is entirely too mysterious for me.
Dan Hunter
The Real World
If it’s real for ten minutes, it’s real enough to injure.
Shahriar Mandanipour
Abandon Hope, All Abandon…!
Recently the Islamic State took aim at the only remaining wealth of the people: their hope.
Brian Marley
Ebook Piracy: Some Pros and Cons
Publishers should think seriously about what may be gained from illegal downloads rather than what may have been lost.
Monica McAlpine
The Calling: My Path to Poetry
At age eighty, I am publishing my first volume of poems.
Jill McCorkle
The Plague of Silence
Complicit silence is the most dangerous of all the infectious plagues.
Thomas O'Grady
Visiting James Joyce’s Grave with Anthony Kerrigan
I have not yet made it to James Joyce’s grave.
Joyce Peseroff
On Christopher Jane Corkery’s Love Took the Words
Corkery’s grasp of poets—and poetics—graces each page.
Tony Schwalm
Just Can’t Picture It
Hopelessness has triumphed in Afghanistan.
Grace Singh Smith
Drinking Up Old Tears
Bharat, India — that gracefully-shaped hurt containing the home I still seek.
Shilpi Suneja
A Scattering of Marigolds: Death, Migration, & Covid-19
For many years I wondered whether my life would have been better had I stayed in India