The Guardian
Read “Zucchini” a new poem by Peter Balakian: “So many hours I stared at the blotch / marks on her knuckles.”
The New Yorker
Read “Eshu or Ambition” a new poem by Kwame Dawes.
New York Times
Read Beth Ann Fennelly’s essay, “I Love My Students, but I Won’t Use a Gun to Protect Them” here.
The New Yorker
Read Adam Gopnik’s latest op-ed, “How to Build a Twenty-first-Century Tyrant.”
LitHub
Read “Dear American Gun Owner: When is Enough?,” an essay by Brenda Hillman.
The New Yorker
Read “Sundown Walks to the Edge of the Story,” a new poem by Joy Harjo.
The New Yorker
Read “As Long As She Likes” by Ellen Bass: “I’ve never returned to my mother’s grave. / But I see her every day.”
Fractured Lit
New flash fiction, “Blink and You Miss Her” by Deesha Philyaw.
The Guardian
Read “Resistance,” a new poem by Simon Armitage.