Poetry
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Poetry: “Columbus”
“What else / have I claimed that was not mine?”
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Poem: “Cotton Candy”
“My mother wept nightly for eight years / my living curled its hands / around her throat not choking exactly.”
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28 Exciting New Books You Need To Read This Fall
New books by Salman Rushdie, Jennifer Egan, Jesmyn Ward, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and John Green, oh my!
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Poem: "Living On Earth" By Alex Dimitrov
“What does the moon know of our language, / our care for its perceived loneliness / which may be its one joy.”
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The Problem With Rupi Kaur’s Poetry
The milk and honey author’s use of unspecified collective trauma in her quest to depict the quintessential South Asian female experience feels disingenuous.
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Poem: "Buen Esqueleto" By Natalie Scenters-Zapico
“Life is short, & I show them how to talk / to police without opening the door / how /to leave the social security number blank / on the exam, I tell this to mis hijas.”
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Sherman Alexie on How Trump is Turning the US Into a Reservation
Sherman Alexie on what it means for Trump to treat the entire country like a reservation — and writing a memoir about a great woman who was not a great mother.
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It’s Time To Find Out Which Famous Poet You’re Most Like
There are no bad results when it comes to good poetry.
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Just 13 Forgotten About Haikus Written By Chris Pratt In 2011
These speak for themselves.
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21 Ridiculously Clever Mugs That Are 100% Funnier Than You
I take my coffee with milk, sugar, and a splash of humor.
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How Maya Angelou Taught Me To Live A Fuller Life
It wasn’t until Maya Angelou died that the full story of her life opened up to me, and helped me open up my own life in turn.
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Poem: "It’s Not Fitness, It’s A Lifestyle" By Nicole Sealey
“I’m waiting for a white woman / in this overpriced Equinox / to mistake me for someone other / than a paying member.”
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Poem: "On The Night Of The Election" By Franny Choi
“Is there anything that works / that isn’t a machine for killing, / or doomed to collapse, or stolen / from the sweat of the hungry?”
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Here Are The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winners For Letters And Drama
Colson Whitehead won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Underground Railroad; Lynn Nottage’s Sweat took home the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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31 Incredible New Books You Need To Read This Spring
It’s a whole new season of fresh reads!
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Poem: "I Knew I Wasn’t Poor" By Jan Beatty
“I knew I wasn’t poor, / because I had a choice: / buy tampons or birth control pills.”
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Four Love Poems For Black Women By Black Women
We asked poet Morgan Parker to curate a suite of poems in celebration of Valentine’s Day.
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21 Of The Most Romantic Quotes In Literature
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.” ―Alfred Tennyson
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If You’ve Ever Read A Book Or Wanted A Tattoo, You HAVE To Read About This Awesome Tattoo Artist/Writer
The writers of today no longer use Word.
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Poem: "When The Therapist Asks You To Recount, You Have To Say It" By Aricka Foreman
“…how you become / the kind of woman who learns when to shut up and take it.”
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14 Great Poems To Read On Inauguration Day
There’s no official inaugural poem this year, so here are 14 that describe America as it is and as it could be.
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27 Books Every Woman In America Should Read
These novels, essay collections, memoirs, histories, and more will help you understand why there is no feminism without intersectionality, why we should remember our history before we repeat it, and why Roe v. Wade is a lot more tenuous than you might think.
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Poem: "Barbershop" By Phillip B. Williams
“So I’m sitting in the barber shop getting my hair cut when this dude say he would kill his son if he found out he was gay…”
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The 32 Most Exciting Books Coming In 2017
Here are the books we can’t wait to read in 2017! (Ranked in no particular order.)
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15 Literary Baby Names That’ll Make You Want To Have Children
What’s in a name? A lot, actually.