Water Remembers
“WaikÄ«kÄ« fed OÊ»ahu people for generations/ so easily that its ocean raised surfers,/ hailed the highest of aliÊ»i to its shores…”
A Pacific climate change poem, by Brandy NÄlani McDougall.
Mark Wyatt
The Poetic Protest of Phillis Wheatley and Alice Dunbar-Nelson
“The poetry of two black American female poets, Phillis Wheatley and Alice Dunbar-Nelson, are both, if not political statements, records of the politics of their time.” Steven Chung reflects on the poetry of two African American women.
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I Will Go
“The taxi that takes me to the station so early in the morning doesn’t have any headlights, any meter, not even a floor in some places.” Story of the Week (December 11), by Nafissatou Dia. Translated from the French by Sébastien Doubinsky and Casey Harding.
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J’irai
Original French text of Nafissatou Dia’s ‘I Will Go’.
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The Secret Library
“Just like the body needs food, the soul needs books.” Weekend poem, by Tabitha Hayward.
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