By Sara Marchant On Wednesday, during peer review, a student waves me over to say something in a voice so low and hoarse I strain to catch the words. “ICE went into Cardenas Market and took people away.” “What?” I say. I must have misunderstood. The students are reviewing papers with topics like Foucault’s […]
By Judith Prest I want the open sore our country has become to finish draining and start healing I want the kneeling football players awarded trophies for honoring the fallen I want the ancestors to gather, sing us songs of solidarity stroke our brows while we sleep I want to see the homeless rise […]
By G. Louis Heath Someday soon, better later, the icons we Worship will leap from their cathedrals To quick pulses, the implosive blood of Impulse. On that surge, the hooded eyes Of eternity will blink, or they will not. The existential surge of non-being rises On the tide of fathomless hearts till the Fates […]
By Penny Perry She pulled up in her dented VW, twenty miles from her cockroach-filled kitchen. Five feet tall, wearing a three-dollar dress from Lerner’s. The dress long and black, looked expensive. N.O.W. had picketed the all male institute the year before. Marble floors. Carved wood staircases. Louis the 14th chairs. The study where […]
