by Aya de Leon | Jul 9, 2020 | Audio/Visual, Opinion, Poetry
Tuesday, Harper’s published A Letter on Justice and Open Debate. The Daily Beast called it “a 532-word document that celebrates untrammeled free expression above all and rebukes the so-called ‘cancel culture’ that might take...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | Jun 17, 2020 | Poetry
Inequalities By Vijaya Nagarajan Inequalities fences boundaries borders walls prisons cages forced labor black, brown, white genders, races, classes, castes, ethnicities sexualities, ages, disabilities, religions countries, geographies, and languages...
by Aya de Leon | May 4, 2020 | Poetry
Broken Record A crowd of fearful, anxious bodies collect In front of the security guarding the elevators Border control on the ground floor of Fortis Hospital, New Delhi, India “Visitor hours are only from 9 – 11” “Only two at a time” “You have to have a pass”...
by Susan Defreitas | Apr 21, 2020 | Poetry
This week, in honor of Earth Day, I’m sharing three poems that speak to the seasons, the way that they’re changing, and the ways they’re changing us. (“When the rains came” was first published in The Lake Rises: Poems to &for Our...
by Susan Defreitas | Apr 9, 2020 | Poetry
Author’s note: This month, massive protests were planned for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, with the aim of sounding the alarm on climate change and creating a wave of action and awareness that would take us all the way to the ballot box in November. With...
by Aya de Leon | Apr 7, 2020 | Guest Post, Poetry, Uncategorized
One of my UC Berkeley students, Pablo Paredes, wrote the following poem, and it just felt so timely. You can also see him perform it in the video, below. Fear and despair are airborne diseases peor que el Coronavirus They … try to divide us But, we’ve...
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