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  • Article
    By Daegan Miller

    Hannah Arendt was the rare philosopher who saw how limited her discipline could be. Poetry offered her another outlet for thinking. 

    A black-and-white photograph of Hannah Arendt facing the camera while holding a lit cigarette.
  • Poem
    By William Butler Yeats
    I

    I walk through the long schoolroom questioning;
    A kind old nun in a white hood replies;
    The children learn to cipher and to sing,
    To study reading-books and history,
    To cut and sew, be neat in everything
    In the best modern way—the children's eyes
    In momentary...
  • Poem
    By Lev Rubinstein
    Translated By Tatiana Tulchinsky & Philip Metres
    1
    Well, what on earth is there to say? 
    2
    He knows something, but won’t tell. 
    3
    Who knows, maybe you’re …
  • Poem
    By W. H. Auden
    Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
    That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
    But on earth indifference is the least
    We have to dread from man or beast.

    How should we like it were stars to burn
    With a...
  • Poem
    By J. Estanislao Lopez
    This century is younger than me.
    It dresses itself
    in an overlong coat of Enlightenment thinking
    despite the disappearing winter.
    It twirls the light-up fidget spinner
    won from the carnival of oil economies.
    In this century, chatbots write poems
    where starlings wander from their murmuration
    into the denim-thick...
  • Poem
    By Norman Finkelstein
    You enter the city with harps and with flutes,
    with drums and with baskets
    of grapes and pomegranates.
    You enter the city of blue ash and blue spruce,
    that terraced city rumored of the spirit.

    You come there as would a fire,
    but neither you nor...
  • Article
    By Tyler Malone
    Who are all these people? Where is this waste land they inhabit? What is this chaos of impressions we are privy to? Wherefore such madness?
    A man standing alone on a rain-drenched pavement on the River Thames Embankment, London.
  • Poem
    By T. S. Eliot
                  I. The Burial of the Dead

    April is the cruellest monthApril is the cruellest month The Waste Land begins with a subversion of the first lines of the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer. He paints April...
  • Poem
    By CAConrad
    Growing up in a rural factory town I watched my creative family extend the grind oft monotonous jobs outside the factory walls and into their lives until they were no longer capable of accessing their artistic abilities. The factory essentially...
  • Poem
    By Unknown
    Translated By Roy M. Liuzza
    Always the one alone longs for mercy,
    the Maker's mildness, though, troubled in mind,
    across the ocean-ways he has long been forced
    co stir with his hands the frost-cold sea,
    and walk in exile's paths. Wyrd is fully fixed.

           Thus spoke the...
  • Poem
    By Unknown
    Here begynnes a tretys and god schorte refreytebytwixe Wynnere and Wastoure

    Sythen that Bretayne was biggede and Bruyttus it aughte,
    Thurgh the takynge of Troye with tresone withinn,
    There hathe selcouthes bene sene in seere kynges tymes,
    Bot never so many as nowe by...
  • Poem
    By Elizabeth Willis
    in the wind / an inky air

    in the air / finchness

    in the ink / a stone

    in the winter / winter

    in the nest / in the piney

    in the tree / filigree

    in the great / bye and bye

    in the worm / William...
  • Poem
    By T. S. Eliot
    Webster was much possessed by death
    And saw the skull beneath the skin;
    And breastless creatures under ground
    Leaned backward with a lipless grin.

    Daffodil bulbs instead of balls
    Stared from the sockets of the eyes!
    He knew that thought clings round dead limbs
    Tightening its lusts...
  • Poem
    By Angelina Weld Grimké
    I have just seen a most beautiful thing
          Slim and still
    Against a gold, gold sky,
    A straight black cypress,
          Sensitive,
          Exquisite,
          A black finger
          Pointing upwards.
    Why, beautiful still finger, are you black?
    And why arc you pointing upwards?
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