"It’s difficult to pluck out just one poem from Ilya Kaminsky’s book “Deaf Republic,” because the volume operates best as an occasion versus a moment.…
Sharing this excerpt from The Rev. Kendyl Gibbons on one meaning of the Easter Story. The Humanist speaks of Easter There are only two things that we …
Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you.Let this darkness be a bell towerand you the bell. As you ring, …
poem for the broken open:you who hold yourself togetheragainst all odds of yet another daywho move through the ache and echoof a vast and now empty ro…
Call the Midwife Uses a Lorca Poem to Illustrate Queer Love IT’S TRUEAy, the pain it costs meto love you as I love you!For love of you, the air, it hu…
At Last There Is Yesterday at last there is yesterdayat last there is furydreams now have a corerevolution resembles something like normal life at las…
My Sister, Who Died Young, Takes Up The Task BY JON PINEDA A basket of apples brown in our kitchen, their warm scent is the scent of ripening, and my …
The new year is often pitched as a time of hope, but the reality is that, for some, the new year might be a time of dislocation, confusion and lonelin…
At the turning of the year I often find myself praying for clarity -- clarity of vision, clarity of purpose. Martha Postlewaite's poem, "Clearing" exp…
my godis not waiting inside a churchor sitting above the temple's stepsmy godis the refugee's breath as she's runningis living in the starving child's…
