All photographs courtesy of Karen Shepard. September 17, 2023, 11:22 P.M. From: Ymei Subject: ….swiss self-end-of-life… To: Karen Shepard how much advance notice does one need for a date.. ? are there…
Sagrado Corazón
Iglesia del Sagrado Corazón, Bilbao. Photograph by Zarateman, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. I was fifteen in the year 2000. Turn of the millennium, turn of tables and tides. Every morning there…
Bolaño’s Heresy: On Distant Star
Photograph by Kgbo, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Are there any actual poems in Distant Star? “The three poems were short; all less than ten lines,” Arturo B., our…
What good are they for Colorado?
Data centers: What good are they for Colorado? Re: “Dueling policies for data centers,” March 1 news story The Denver Post article about two competing bills in the legislature regarding new data…
Tyrant Style
Selfie by Giancarlo DiTrapano. Giancarlo DiTrapano was a friend, so take all this with a gram of salt. Gian had two arts at which he was preternaturally talented, what we’d’ve called his…
On Angst
Cixous with her children Anne-Emmanuelle and Pierre-François, ca. 1964. Courtesy of Olivier Morel and Hélène Cixous. In her 1977 novel Angst, Hélène Cixous names the quarter hour of Great Suffering—“straight away,” “never…
February 28, Benedict XVI becomes first pope to resign
Today is Saturday, Feb. 28, the 59th day of 2026. There are 306 days left in the year. Today in history: On Feb. 28, 2013, Benedict XVI became the first pope in…
Making of a Poem: Monzer Masri and Robyn Creswell on “A Palestinian, a Sudanese, and the third was a Moroccan”
Images courtesy of Monzer Masri. For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve contributed to our pages. Monzer Masri’s poem “A Palestinian, a…
February 22, White men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery
Today is Sunday, Feb. 22, the 53rd day of 2026. There are 312 days left in the year. Today in history: On Feb. 22, 2022, three white men were convicted of federal…
Reading at Random with Virginia Woolf
Georg-Johann, random pixels, colored by Polyominoe, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC0 1.0. “Let us try then to recapture some actual experience, which seems to have a connection with the experience of…