February 19, 2025 U.S.·World Rest of the World: A Haiku A haiku for a country that pretends there are no bounds. Read More
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Israel-Palestine Conflict·Middle East·World A Dead Child is a Dead Child by David Adès By David Adès. The Israel-Hamas conflict is a war on children. Read More
Israel-Palestine Conflict·Middle East Planting Trees by Devorah Levy-Pearlman By Devorah Levy-Pearlman. I look out at a stampede of pines over the rubble of uprooted olive trees. Read More
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Israel-Palestine Conflict·Middle East The Bread of Peace by Christine Deakers War is born in the binary. Read More
Israel-Palestine Conflict·Middle East Laila by Francisco Castro Videla Poetry holds the body of Laila Saeed Atta Abu Safra, a 3-year-old killed by bombs in Gaza. Read More
Israel-Palestine Conflict·Middle East·World And That I Should Witness Such Beauty by Aurore Sibley For Shani Louk, the 23-year-old woman abducted from the Supernova Music Festival and killed by Hamas on October 7. Read More
Ukraine·World Grandmother by Sue Eisenfeld “When an invader comes, I will resist, and I will be furious.” Read More
Ukraine·World My Ukraine—A Complicated History by Norma Smith Pogroms once lit up Ukraine's skies. How can a survivor's descendant bridge her solidarity with this history? Read More