Poetry

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Poem | Math Drills

We are / afraid that our parents will see us one day on television: / limbs heaped over each other, syrup-drenched, becoming pixels / that flit across the screen.
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Poem | October, Falling

This is what I want to do with my late seventies, / honor the sky, scatter stained glass on the sidewalk, // follow the path their hues take us, you beside me.
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A Man of Many Moods

Bob Dylan’s latest album—and its closing track in particular—remind us that American history is also the story of American popular culture.
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Home Songs

A new, polyphonic collection with poems by more than a hundred Latinx writers responds to the vexed problem of identity with expansiveness, not reductionism.
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Poem | The Proof Cloth

Judge not. Or judge // that part of love which, when adrenaline / and worry boil off, still wants some remnant, relic, / to itself
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Poem | Aftermaths

I go to the window. For a moment the world / only my backyard, such a gold as I have seen / behind the heads of saints in medieval paintings,

Reporting Religion

Poet and reporter Eliza Griswold, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for her book ‘Amity and Prosperity’ and author of the new poetry collection ‘If Men, Then,’ explains how both genres have helped her tell stories that transcend her ego. She talks with us about writing poetry, reporting from conflict zones, and what the secular media get wrong about religious belief today.
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