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Chinese New Year in Philadelphia, Thanksgiving in Mexico, Passover in prison
By Our ReadersDecember 2020Claiming a heritage, becoming a citizen, landing in a foreign jail
By Our ReadersOctober 2020Sharing a cab, hitching a ride, staying in a marriage
By Our ReadersSeptember 2020I used my legs and heart as if I would
gladly use them up for this,
to touch him again in this life
I think of that ancient time when the sea was cut off from the ocean, how low it sank, the way the rivers carved canyons to replenish it. Such beauty often requires a kind of devastation. Maybe the saddest landscapes are always the most beautiful.
By Melissa FebosSeptember 2020Almost fifty years ago 170 Romani families settled in the Polygone district of Strasbourg, France. They parked their caravan vehicles and, over time, constructed homes on empty land near an airfield, often using salvaged materials.
By Jeannette GregoriMay 2020Before you know what kindness really is / you must lose things, / feel the future dissolve in a moment
By Naomi Shihab NyeApril 2020He needs more time to brake / so he drives slow. He needs / more time to read traffic signs / so he drives slow.
By Michael MarkApril 2020It was the first Friday of spring break, 1984, when I climbed into the bed of Greg’s compact truck, leaned back against the cab, and watched the keg party fade into the distance as we drove away.
By Kelly DanielsApril 2020Decorah sat in the impact crater of an asteroid that had struck the earth hundreds of millions of years ago. One of the extinct giant sea creatures exhumed from its crust — the shrimp-looking Pentecopterus decorahensis — had been named after the town.
By Poe BallantineNovember 2019Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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