On Friendship

The intimacies shared with our closest companions keep us anchored, vital, and alive

Wait and See

The Rich

Madrid: Dignity and Indignation

Monkey Business

Eviction Noticed

Gentrification in Berlin shutters a bombed-out building where artists had squatted since the Wall came down

Update, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Sticker Shock

What college leaders say about costs

It’s Only Oblivion

We aren’t expendable, but must fend for ourselves

Denial

Cudillero

“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

Casa Gorín

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Birthday Boy

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

New Year, Old Year

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