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Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of two books of poetry, The Ground and Heaven, as well as an essay collection, When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness.

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Halo

by Rowan Ricardo Phillips | Sunday, June 05, 2016
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Three Poems 

by Rowan Ricardo Phillips | Monday, June 06, 2016
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A Tale of War and Forgetting

by Neil Shea

In honor of Memorial Day this Monday, we’re revisiting this powerful essay from contributing editor Neil Shea, written just after the centennial of the First World War. Shea reflects on the war through the lens of Impressionist painting— viewed up close, he writes, “there is bravery and blindness, splinters of bone and steel, mud, horror, cacophony.” As time goes on, however, we risk seeing the war “as a vague event portrayed in colors that seem almost quaint.”