The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...

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On a disappearance.

Menil Summer School revealed that Houston lives in George Wallace’s time. That’s right, the long-dead former Governor of Alabama.

Over the course of his 39 years, Vance’s first, middle and last names have all been altered in one way or another.

From caretaker to cotranslator: Amanda L. Andrei on how a creative partnership transformed her relationship with her aging father.

What can the border between Mexico and Guatemala tell us about the limits of North America?

we’ll go as i think of you between lines and the poor sense of smell from a landscape with drunkards or hanged humans / iremos que te pienso entre las filas y el olfato pobre de un paisaje con borrach...

Gather your losses, oblong / & indiscriminate: avocado rot

Through August 15, Deceleration invites poems, flash fic and creative nonfic, song, and art for our upcoming summer Creative Review highlighting counterimaginaries for the U.S. 250th.

Facilitated by / Facilitado por Jadine (JD) Pluecker La versión en español se encuentra allá abajo. This Fall 2026, I will lead a twelve-week bilingual English & Spanish group to Read/Write/Study tog...

If the body is a container full of thoughts, feeling, and affective resonances, then what can we make of the ways that time demands our senses spill out of, and into, us? What does it mean…

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

Author Ammiel Alcalay defies categorization in his latest book (in fact four), producing a work that is both timely and timeless.

Mexican Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco's announcement Thursday morning further escalated tensions with the United States, as Mexico's government has sharply criticized the treatment of its citizens ...

The selected journals of trans, mixed-race artist and dyke erotica writer Red Jordan Arobateau.

The first thing you do is to forget that i’m Black.Second, you must never forget that i’m Black. You should be able to dig Aretha,but don’t play her every time i come over.And if you decide to play Be...

The Emmy-winning drag queen tells us what she really thinks about the latest movie to come out of the RuPaul's Drag RacE universe.

Queer Poem-A-Day is a curated series showcasing one queer poet each weekday, connecting readers to queer poems. Click to read Queer Poem-A-Day, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Scholars of Black placekeeping discuss ways of mapping Black-founded towns, focusing on the cultural landscapes through which residents and diasporic communities sustain themselves.

The old mesquite will fall in the future or no

Landowners say contractors began clearing land near San Ygnacio before signing right-of-entry agreements or going through condemnation proceedings. CBP says it has the necessary access rights.

Since 2020, the state education agency has taken over eight school districts — four in just the past few months — and installed leaders linked to Houston’s controversial superintendent, Mike Miles. At...

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The Invention of Codependency Lily Meyersohn

The poet Stine An, who is at the very least a finalist for best author/translator photo, is the translator of the recent poetry collection Winter Night Rabbit Worries by Yoo Heekyung. An received b…

We’re not fighting a lost cause.

City leaders intend to make unprecedented cuts to water use in September, but they aren’t sure exactly how.

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I’m ready to return to New Orleans, sister city on this Gulf of Mexico, for the PNew Orleans Poetry Festival ! Catch me at these events or on the street: Friday, April 17 - 1pm Lagniappe Reading w A...