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.

Askold Melnyczuk 10/4/22 Askold Melnyczuk 10/4/22

On Teaching Creative Writing to Ukrainian Students

They are suffering so that Europe can live in peace.

Thomas O’Grady 10/4/22 Thomas O’Grady 10/4/22

A Prayer for My Daughter

I was simply tongue-tied by all that my daughter’s reporting was bearing witness to.

Qais Akbar Omar 10/4/22 Qais Akbar Omar 10/4/22

As the Bodies of Victims Pile Up in Ukraine

I know war and its aftermath too well.

Arrowsmith Press 8/2/22 Arrowsmith Press 8/2/22

Between Fury and Peace: The Many Arts of Derek Walcott

A special issue devoted to Derek Walcott.

John J. Clayton 2/22/22 John J. Clayton 2/22/22

Memory Loss

This father seems to Ben a father he doesn’t know how to know.

Thomas Sayers Ellis 2/22/22 Thomas Sayers Ellis 2/22/22

Folkcal Fraim 6

I used to think of a lens as a tree that could be used to climb anything.

Thea Goodman 2/22/22 Thea Goodman 2/22/22

Dissolving Boundaries

The wealth of Hustvedt’s intellectual trespassing permeates this book.

Nidia Hernández 2/22/22 Nidia Hernández 2/22/22

An Interview with Cristina Peri Rossi

“Poetry is a perception, a state of mind.”

Jean Hey 2/22/22 Jean Hey 2/22/22

Apartheid America

I have to believe that the “whites-only democracy” I grew up with in South Africa will never take hold anywhere again.

Dan Hunter 2/22/22 Dan Hunter 2/22/22

A Shotgun Blast of Tribalization

If healthy relationships are nourishing meals, then social media is cotton candy—a sweet, vanishing sugar rush.

Askold Melnyczuk 2/22/22 Askold Melnyczuk 2/22/22

The Sound of Truth: Writers for Democratic Action, Here and Elsewhere

Some 2,500 other writers joined us in our efforts in the somewhat grandiose-sounding task of supporting democracy.

Jo-Ann Mort 2/22/22 Jo-Ann Mort 2/22/22

Poetry as Secular Prayer

The writer places him or herself firmly between one moment of creation and the next.

Douglas Penick 2/22/22 Douglas Penick 2/22/22

Without a Foothold Found

We exist in this world, endlessly devouring and excreting data.

Joyce Peseroff 2/22/22 Joyce Peseroff 2/22/22

On Tom Sleigh’s “The King’s Touch”

The King’s Touch is an extraordinary pleasure not to be missed.