Lisa Allen
Utopia Lost
Clifton’s slogan was “Pay What You Wish, Dine Free Unless Delighted.”
Lila Dlaboha
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
Fo(lk)cal Fr-aim 7
We write with light but the true page of the world, darkness, is what we write on.
Andrew Grainger
Dispatch From the Coast
Boating in general, like lobstering, is on the generational ebb.
Yoni Hammer-Kossoy
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
The War Against Human Creativity
GPT-3 may also mark the death of human painting and drawing.
Jacki Lyden
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
Original or Backwards
Nowhere in the Bible will you find bootstraps, antidepressants, or a good therapist.
Askold Melnyczuk
On Teaching Creative Writing to Ukrainian Students
They are suffering so that Europe can live in peace.
Thomas O'Grady
A Prayer for My Daughter
I was simply tongue-tied by all that my daughter’s reporting was bearing witness to.
Qais Akbar Omar
As the Bodies of Victims Pile Up in Ukraine
I know war and its aftermath too well.