Omar El Akkad Wins National Book Award
“It’s very difficult to think in celebratory terms about a book that was written in response to a genocide,” said Omar El Akkad, who won the nonfiction prize for One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. The Egyptian-Canadian author’s book is a treatise on...
Poem: For the Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper
For the Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the...
Poem: Learning, William Stafford
Learning A piccolo played, then a drum. Feet began to come – a part of the music. Here comes a horse, clippety clop, away. My mother said, “Don’t run – the army is after someone other than us. If you stay you’ll learn our enemy.” Then he came, the speaker. He stood...
Poem: Relax, by Ellen Bass
A poem for these times... Relax Ellen Bass Bad things are going to happen. Your tomatoes will grow a fungus and your cat will get run over. Someone will leave the bag with the ice cream melting in the car and throw your blue cashmere sweater in the drier. Your husband...
Poem: Holdfast, Holly Hughes
Holdfast Last week of August: too soon for falling leaves, fog that rises at dawn, ghosts up the beach, geese lining up in their ragtag V. Beyond the sandstone ledge carved like a torso by the waves, beyond purple sea stars inching toward tide pools, ...
