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

Olha Poliukhovych 4/4/23 Olha Poliukhovych 4/4/23

To Break a Window: The Phenomenology of a Wartime Gesture

I ask myself whether Kosach’s gesture was born of hope or of despair.

Tony Schwalm 4/4/23 Tony Schwalm 4/4/23

Dog Food

I know what it means for my enemies to become dung on the earth.

Larissa Babij 12/6/22 Larissa Babij 12/6/22

Ukrainian is a Place I Want to Live

The personal choice to speak Ukrainian is part of what creates the Ukrainian political nation fighting for its freedom.

Featured Poet Series 12/6/22 Featured Poet Series 12/6/22

Featured Poet: Rachel DeWoskin

The first in our Featured Poet Series, we’re honored to highlight the work of acclaimed poet Rachel DeWoskin.

Martin Edmunds 12/6/22 Martin Edmunds 12/6/22

Rhyme and Reason

You can’t contradict an image or a song; you can’t be argued down if you end in apostrophe or revelation.

Thomas Sayers Ellis 12/6/22 Thomas Sayers Ellis 12/6/22

Folkcal Fraim 8

Word selfies — the selves of the word as it flies from one form of itself to another freer form of itself.

Andrew Grainger 12/6/22 Andrew Grainger 12/6/22

Notes of a Poll Observer

It’s more than enough to remind us emphatically what we stand to lose.

Dan Hunter 12/6/22 Dan Hunter 12/6/22

The Attention of a Goldfish

Big Tech is changing how all of us think, even changing the structure of the brain.

Kai Maristed 12/6/22 Kai Maristed 12/6/22

Fall Notes From Paris

There’s a surreal element to these balmy late fall days in Paris.

Jill McCorkle 12/6/22 Jill McCorkle 12/6/22

Bugaboo

There’s a break between two parties who share a country. What is best for future generations?

Rebecca Pacheco 12/6/22 Rebecca Pacheco 12/6/22

Reflections on the Middle of Life

I currently reside in middle age, though the term seems presumptuous.

Douglas Penick 12/6/22 Douglas Penick 12/6/22

Alexander Dreier: In the Wild

Alexander did not merely accept his diagnosis, he embraced the disease as a sequence of adventures and revelations.

Lisa Allen 10/4/22 Lisa Allen 10/4/22

Utopia Lost

Clifton’s slogan was “Pay What You Wish, Dine Free Unless Delighted.”

Lila Dlaboha 10/4/22 Lila Dlaboha 10/4/22

Anything But Normal

I thought it would be a good idea to teach them mindfulness practice to ease their anxiety from war.