There are lions and roaring tigers, and enormous camels and things, There are biffalo-buffalo-bisons, and a great big bear with wings. There's a sort of a tiny potamus, and a tiny nosserus too - But I

PODCAST This week: thoughts on form. Both Marilyn Nelson and Nikki Grimes agree, playing with poetic constraints can create an expansive world to write within. Listen as two of the most celebrated authors

PADMA VENKATRAMAN Think how many long years this tree waited as a seed for an animal or bird or wind or rain to maybe carry it to maybe the right spot where again it waited months for seasons to change

KIMBERLY BLAESER We all have the same little bones in our foot twenty-six with funny names like navicular. Together they build something strong— our foot arch a pyramid holding us up. The bones don’t get

KARA JACKSON i look in the mirror, and all the chips i’ve eaten this month have accumulated like schoolwork at the bottom of my tummy, my belly—a country i’m trying to love. my mouth is a lover devoted

CHEN CHEN See the stars nightly disobeying the night. Watch the pattering rain sketch an anarchist’s map to the future, then unpattern it away— an anarchist’s revision. Praise my mother who wears a plaid

NATHALIE HANDAL He said I was different because I was dark. She said I was different because I wore a scarf. He said I was different because I had an accent. She said I was different because I couldn’t

NATHALIE HANDAL She told me, Mama, I want to see the world. I told her, Go. When she returned she said: I saw barefoot women carry water from village to village, saw men limp from border to border, saw

KIM STAFFORD The design committee for making the world had stalled with the problem of drought. “We have the sea over here, the desert over there—how many roads do we need, how many trucks, how many miles

KIM STAFFORD Because they were rich and clever, all the ambassadors designed an echo chamber of glass and platitudes, and took turns denying the future. And because they were old, only the next few years

It is reported that Al-Hasan Al-Basri - Allah have mercy on him - said: "By Allah, never was a person given an abundance of worldly wealth and then not feared this might be a plot against him [for

CORNELIUS EADY I know this is a real thing, because When I was a kid, my big sister took me To the Capitol Theater, in my hometown Of Rochester, NY, And there was a movie that afternoon, The Tingler, which

TANAYA WINDER Summers meant sticking my arm out the back of a rez car. No other windows rolled down. Consequences of a mechanic, some stranger’s calloused hands left us with sticky summers, sweat dripping

Ali Ibn Abi Talib (May Allah be pleased with him) was asked, “How many friends have you got ? He replied, “I do not know right now because life has not turned its back on me yet, and all people are my

A man who is shy and modest is an amazing character, but a woman who is shy and modest is beyond amazing.

CEDAR SIGO For Joy Harjo How to fall asleep easily on the beach, to dig clams, to dream a net made of nettles, a medicine of marsh tea boiled out to the open air, a memory of cedar bark coiled, resting

Weight When I was a kid, there was this song that played on the radio all the time. It talked about a road that was long and a brother who had to be carried on it. The singer said the brother wasn’t heavy.

An Artificial Intelligence is a way through which machine can work and learn. It is the New Technology that people are rushing into right now. To be become one, there are few things that we need to understand