In the Room Where Keats Lay Dying
There in the room where Keats died, the light coming in that way, the indoor relief from the outdoor heat and humidity of late summer in Rome, my lover and I moved in silences.
Civil War: Field Notes on the Pedagogy of Succession
What if our role as mentors, educators, and leaders is to train, quite literally, the people who will replace us?
Life on the Exhale: Victoria Amelina
This is how I met her. In wartime, all it takes is one meeting.
Dumbing Down the Country
Ed tech companies claim that artificial intelligence can work educational miracles in our schools. What do teachers think?
Featured Fiction: Brock Clarke
I live in a priest’s house. No, I live in a room in the priest’s house. The priest lives in the rest of the house.
Featured Poets: David Hutcheson & Christopher Reid
We’re proud to bring you the poems of David Hutcheson and Christopher Reid.
Muzungu in the Bush
The entire team gathered near the drilling rig. The rig was silent; all work stopped.
Asan Akhtem: I Want to Breathe
A profile of imprisoned Crimean journalist, Asan Akhtem, excerpted from the forthcoming The Free Voices of Crimea, to be published this spring.
Featured Fiction: Sherrie Flick
The evening felt like an audition for a throwback movie with Trudy poorly reciting lines that she had once known by heart.
Mad Hatters, Cheshire Cats, and Hallucinations
Why do large language models fabricate information?
Asymmetrical Lines
I started thinking about asymmetrical lines in poetry around the same time I started thinking about having a child.
Against the Stupor of Privilege: "We Must March, My Darlings"
Power, my friend of Oksana Zabuzhko once noted, "is the privilege of ignoring anything you might find distasteful."
Selected Works from Young Writers for Democratic Action
A selection of prose and poetry from Bella Rotker, Chair of the Young Writers for Democratic Action.
