Congratulations to Caroline Harper New, the winner of this year’s Anne Halley Poetry Prize! Poetry editors Nathan McClain and Abigail Chabitnoy selected New’s poem “My Love for Geography Is an Act of Mourning” from our Summer 2025 issue for the prize. A virtual reading with New and printed broadsides featuring the poem . . .
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Destruction in Khan Younis, Gaza. Gaza today appears like a place where crises are not managed but accumulated, where collapse is not accidental but deliberately engineered—in full view of the world. Between the warnings of yesterday and the realities of today, a more unsettling question emerges: are we witnessing the early stages . . .
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A Review of Night Night Fawn (One World 2026) by Jordy Rosenberg. Among many human beings it is customary—has been, for a long time, in all kinds of places—for the act of giving birth to convey upon the birther a combined legal standing, quasi-proprietary status, cultural role, and economic function known as “motherhood.” If . . .
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This county town’s famine is faraway, and mooring here is so miserable. Themountains advance from the south, the Yangtze’s gurgle carries up northward. —from 峡江县 (XIAJIANG COUNTY) and 黄金洲 (GOLDEN ISLAND), poems by Zhang Xun, translated by Bijaan Noormohamed (Volume 65, issue 3) Tell us about one of the first pieces you . . .
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On March 24, 2026, as Argentinians prepare to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the coup d’etat that initiated the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional—the country’s bloodiest and most violent dictatorship in its history—I want to revisit La historia oficial [The Official Story] (1985), the award-winning film directed by Luis Puenzo which exposes the . . .
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Jodi M. Savage (right) and her godmother Sister Christine (left). Tell us about your relationship to writing.I started out writing poetry and short stories. In college, I felt I needed to do something “practical,” so I became an attorney. But I still longed to be a writer. In my late twenties, I . . .
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Dany Díaz Mejía writing in his village, Nueva Esperanza, Honduras Two weeks before the November 30, 2025 elections took place in Honduras, I traveled to Washington, DC for the largest Catholic social justice gathering in the U.S. I had been invited by the Ignatian Solidarity Network to give a talk about how . . .
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I was done up in pale powder and period costume, neatly combed and asked to shave. I look totally different, which was exactly the point. He looks weird, like a ghost. Which is funny. It’s been so long and, especially with this goofy getup, I almost don’t recognize him. —from Eric Boyd’s . . .
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Photo by Hossein Zohrevand.“Attack on Gandhi Hospital,” (#15) courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. What is unfolding across West Asia is a colonial project that, if allowed to continue, will ultimately pave the way for a Greater Israel and end any prospects for Palestinian freedom. In October 2003, the recently assassinated Ali Khamenei declared . . .
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“The Sahara,” articulates Maysa Abou-Youssef Hayward in her study of the desert in Arabic verse, “represents a location marked by fear, loss, exile, and emptiness, the result of destruction.” In Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences (University of California Press, 2025) Brahim El Guabli argues that this idea . . .
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