A Letter from Eileen Myles
TO: PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS, LT GOV. KATHY HOCHUL, INTERIOR SECRETARY DEB HAALAND…
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.
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.“