6+ hour, 57+ min ago  (247+ words) I can see that one might read this and ask, Why not just convert? Part of the answer is that in New Orleans, at least our New Orleans, everybody knew everybody else, going back for at least two generations. There…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (81+ words) Poetry by Tyehimba Jess: "It should be thistle-covered, / a labor of thunder bent / through it." It should be thistle-covered, a labor of thunder bent It should fountain sweet- water arcs into catfish- It should flock blackbirds into halos about it....

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (183+ words) This is nota good year.But it haswitnesses. When you see them protest the powerful,since who else does,they standlike flagpoles outside the courthouseafter a northeaster. They are your legionof bent spoons.They are the only oneswho showed up'with…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (110+ words) Poetry by Maya C. Popa: "I wasn't fooled by these walls of my body / but loved them touched." I wasn't fooled by these walls of my body but loved them touched, like a seed that germinates in fire; shy slide of…...

9+ mon, 2+ day ago  (842+ words) From the daily newsletter: a conversation about drugs, God, and science. Plus: the new official language of the U.S.; "Salome," perverted. Is God a woman? A conversation about the religious professionals who, after tripping on mushrooms, became evangelists for psychedelics. Plus:…...