Philip Metres’s newest collection of poetry speaks as eloquently as ever against empire—but he grounds the writing in this book in his own family’s story and history.
"No more standing ovations for war criminals. No more empty warnings behind closed doors. And no more weapons for the collective punishment of an entire people."
"This Laetare Sunday, then, I do want to focus on God’s love and my sins in light of God’s love, but not to the point of apathy, and instead to the point of further struggle."
To honor those killed in Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel in recent weeks, the least we can do is keep bigotry from festering and spreading in our communities.
"There’s regular routine. There’s emergency routine. And there is wartime routine. The only thing I know about this routine is that it’s never routine."
The United States has contributed to the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen. We have a moral duty to make sure that children do not starve there as a result.
American attention on Afghanistan often neglects the material needs of ordinary Afghans, especially food security, which is now being threatened by climate change.
While the United States continues to re-arm Saudi Arabia, it is complicit in the atrocities committed in Yemen. That such complicity remains legal is no accident.
In 2003, Pope John Paul II sent an envoy to persuade George W. Bush not to invade Iraq. As tensions with Iran continue to mount, it’s a story worth revisiting.
