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.
The Yale Review
Aminatta Forna pens a reflection on memoir writing and transcending the trauma narrative.
NY Review of Books
Read “Day” a new poem by Jorie Graham: “Lie still it says. / Very still. / Listen.”
Scientific American
Meghan O’Rourke writes on how COVID long haulers are calling attention to chronic illnesses.
The Guardian
New poem by Maya C. Popa, “Often, I received more than I’d asked, // which is how this works – you fish in open water / ready to be wounded on what you reel in.”
New York Times
Read Mahogany L. Browne’s reflections for Modern Love’s series Black History, Continued, “Beyond Cool, She Was Fly. Her Confidence Gave Me Wings.“
New York Times
Read the poem “A Sunny Morning in the Square” written by Polina Barskova and translated by Valzhyna Mort.
The Atlantic
Read “Needing the Dragon,” Alicia Ostriker’s new poem: “the one god in whom we say we believe / is also unbelievable.”