Betsy Ross Decides to Burn A Flag
Is the AI revolution following in the footsteps of an American one?
8 Years of Journalism in Verse
Feu d’Artifice
What is Big Tech asking our children to forget?
Clarity Is Not My Forte
Log notes from an existential crisis in the machine.
Observable Universe
By Erika Luckert. We still can’t build a computer large enough to calculate loss.
Horns Are Growing On Young People’s Skulls
By Sasha Stiles. We're in lust with a different kind of hand-held fantasy.
Ghosts in the Machine
By Chandra Steele. The winning poem from our weekly challenge delves into facial recognition technology.
A Day Made of Atoms Like Ours
By Jed Myers. The winning poem from our poetry challenge imagines what lies on the other side of our particular darkness.
The Chicxulub Impact Initiates a Mass Extinction
By EJ Shu. A poet time travels 66 million years to the site of Earth’s last mass extinction.
IPOpallooza Gentrification Math
By Gerry Sarnat. Will San Francisco survive an IPO gold rush?
God Bless The Child
By Alyx Jordan. On the Mars Opportunity rover: "Her body doubled as its own monument."
My Battery Is Low
By Catherine Strayhall. A first-person account of living and dying on Mars.
Recovery Commands
By Abby E. Murray. On the end of a long-distance relationship with NASA's Mars Rover, Opportunity.
Seven Minutes of Terror
By JS Makkos. A poem in a microchip on the surface of Mars, far from consumerist Earth.
