Adults

Inspired by Georges Perec’s An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, this prompt invites thinking about the various ways we might attend to the ordinary around us through creative...

For a poem about the brevity of every state of being, the single octave perfectly enacts its themes through its form.

Poetry, like the movie theater, is built out of dark and light. The ink and the page. The room and the screen.

I was grateful to devise and facilitate a workshop called “Standing Outside Myself: The Black Ecstatic.” I began by drawing on ecstasy’s etymology as a framework for our thinking—the idea...

Metaphor in Lorca is a form of gorgeous shorthand.

In 1954, on a small coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean, the United States detonated a weapon designed to annihilate every living thing in its path. That year, Frank O’Hara...

Silence and speech in post-war France

A melancholy medieval rent collector’s sorrows, scribbled on the back of a legal document