How long is a piece of string when all we’ve got is scissors? (poetry)

Two poems by Athena Melliar, a Greek feminist poet and essayist, examining historical violence and a deadly fire in the Violanta biscuit factory in 2026.

How long is a piece of string when all we’ve got is scissors? (poetry)

by Athena Melliar

by Athena Melliar “I saw ghosts…at the Erdem show,…and they saw me”

by Athena Melliar A Golden Shovel after Gertrude Stein King Lear, National Theatre of Greece (Winter 2023-4 Season) Athena Melliar is a Greek feminist poet and essayist who lives and writes in Athe…

No living thing, the wild doves gone and the king of Asini, whom we’ve been trying to find for two years now, unknown, forgotten by all, even by Homer, only one word in the Iliad and that uncertain, t...

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Dadia Forest, Alexandroupoli Who am I? Maybe I should introduce myself. The air says ghost. I say the burned tree. To choose carefully your supplies in dying draw yourself from

MJ Lu (she/they) is a Southeast Asian American poet who hails from North Carolina. Her work was previously published in MudRoom, Bulb Culture Collective, and Von Aegir Literary.

So small was your earth clod thrown out of Argo, it crawled into a tectonic hole — the hole is black, tears the cyan — you came up for air, we didn’t breathe a word. Now you swell and swirl, you er…

So small was your earth clod thrown out of Argo, it crawled into a tectonic hole — the hole is black, tears the cyan — you came up for air, we didn’t breathe a word. Now you swell and swirl, you er…

I Google myself I want you to love me When I feel down I want you to Google me I search myself I want you to find me I Google myself I want you to remind me I don’t Google anybody else When...

Surely I am evading my responsibilities: hiding out in the backyard, choosing to believe my teens are working/learning when they are pursuing their own privacy on the Internet like nymphs gathering bl...

ALT: a full moon rises over a body of water with rocks in the foreground

Somewhere between Norway and Irelandvolcanic rocks and glaciers leap from the seaMy map has failed me, I’m there

ALT: the letters are falling from the sky in a seamless pattern on a white background .

Silvia Federici interviewed by Jill Richards.

Stay-at-home mothering is bad for mothers, their kids, and women’s equality.