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The Patriots: On Reading Becoming in Tehran

November 26, 2019 |Shohreh Laici

A close up the dense textures in a piece of amber

Shame: A Poem from China

November 21, 2019 |

A prison sits atop an island. A boat rides in the waters at the island's feet

Cultural Cross Sections

Alcatraz, Alcatrace,القطر

November 18, 2019 |

A color-altered photograph (emphasizing red tones) of a highway with a sign beside it in the foreground. The sign reads Route US 66. Another sign has been placed above it that read Miami Now, Native Oklahoma Weekend. Celebrating the past and future on Route 66.

Cultural Cross Sections

Eradicating the e-Word: Musings on Myaamia Language Reclamation

November 11, 2019 |

A painting of a landscape with a road in the center that disappears into the horizon line. Human and animal figures are in the sky along with the moon.

Cultural Cross Sections

An American Mythology

November 11, 2019 |

A photograph of an ivory-billed woodpecker

Two Activist Poems

November 07, 2019 |

A black and white photograph of Józef Wittlin juxtaposed with the cover of his book Salt of the Earth

The Saga of Many Patient Foot Soldiers: Józef Wittlin’s Salt of the Earth

November 05, 2019 |

Cultural Cross Sections

Women in Public Art: An Essay

November 04, 2019 |

Three people sitting in chairs in conversation with an audience (which is off panel)

Cultural Cross Sections

On Practice

November 01, 2019 |

A helicopter hovers above a smoldering, mountainous landscape. The sun is positioned just such that the helicopter appears to be on fire.

Letter from California—Fire Season

October 29, 2019 |

A photo of writer Rachel Tzvia Back juxtaposed against the cover to her book What Use is Poetry?

The Uses—and Uselessness—of Poetry

October 28, 2019 |

A group of people, clad in brightly colored clothes, march toward the camera waving the Hawai'ian flag

For all the aunties, but especially for Mary Maxine Lani Kahaulelio

October 28, 2019 |

The negative outline of a person blowing on a dandelion through which a photograph of a dirt road stretching into the distance can be seen

On Home and Migration: Two Poems

October 24, 2019 |

A time-elapsed black and white photograph of a dancer

Cultural Cross Sections

Alicia Alonso: The Will to Be Known as a Legend

October 24, 2019 |

A black and white photo of a man walking down a sloping street in front of a wall transected by shadow

Giorgio de Chirico’s Shadowed Geometry

October 23, 2019 |

A man sits outdoors in a thin yellow t-shirt with one arm draped over a block of wood next to a wooden airplane model

Perfecto Remembers La Lucha (1970–1975)

October 22, 2019 |

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