Poets & Writers
Q&A with poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil on writing, nature, and her forthcoming collection of essays World of Wonders.
BE Latina
Read this interview with Mahogany L. Browne, “if we never admit it, if we never acknowledge it — then we can feign ignorance.”
The New Yorker
Read Terrance Hayes‘ “Pseudacris Crucifer,”A single tree frog can sound like a sleigh bell,/The father says. Several can sound like a choir/Of crickets.”
StatoRec
Read Roxana Robinson’s latest essay, “the more you rely on weapons, the less you use empathy.
Financial Times
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey recounts a family history of struggle, resistance, and hope – read the full piece here.
Heron Barks
Read Rowan Ricardo Phillips‘ new poem: “Remember the heat, how it burns the back/of the throat as night screams his name.”
New York Times
Jericho Brown reflects on the history of Pride Month and weighs in on this complicated moment for the L.G.B.T.Q. community.
New York Times
Read “Weather” by Claudia Rankine: “Turns out/in a pandemic everyone, not just the philosopher, is without.”
New York Times
Read “Say Thank You I’m Sorry” by Jericho Brown: “I’d like us to rethink/What it is to be a nation.”
LitHub
Read “This’ll hurt me more” by Camille Dungy: “America,/I’ll tell you this much, I cannot understand this mind,/where it reaches.”