A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by Donald Trump and his fascist regime

A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House and his regime Robbie GambleHabeas Corpus You should have the body. She was asleepin bed wh…

by Robbie Gamble

Renowned poet and author wins prize for series of New Yorker essays on suffering of Palestinians in Gaza

Dear Solstice Readers, In my introduction to the Winter 2024 issue I wrote about the importance of memory for writers. However, currently in the public sphere much of our communal memory, our history,...

Aubade to Self morning’s gray filaments pry the curtains as I lie still floating a prayer for a scant of endurance, compassion, generosity— selfishly, of course but for all of us because despair is…

You drag the dogs outfor a late-night pee throughthe carport, past compost bins festering with the self-same stardustthat flecks the dark vault abovethe drive. Quarter-moon scuds into a fringe of o…

A day spent wandering galleriesconnecting the dots across an arrayof Western Art’s greatest hits, and allI can think of now is a patch of triptychby Hieronymus Bosch, not the centralscene, where Ma…