Hunger
A haunting dance of hunger and grief, survival measured in what we consume and deny.
Journalism in Verse
Sette Cose Fa la Zuppa
How flavor becomes a path to healing, awakening, and re-embodiment.
Memory Circles Under the Rolling Pin
A smear of mango pickle, the curve of roti, a poem of memory.
Ode to the Mission Fig
Sweetness and sacrifice intertwine, and hunger binds us to the ancient cycles of life, death, and rebirth.
In the Cauldron
Read this rhythmic chant of ingredients and transformation, and become captivated by the alchemy of the kitchen.
Cutting Strawberries
A tender act of making becomes a moment of quiet undoing.
Our Gods Defy Us
A gathering of gods from diverse cultures, where divine beings share space and sustenance, transcending boundaries to break bread together.
Fruit/Branches
A lush meditation on summer’s fleeting bounty,
where fruit becomes memory, and winter the reckoning.
Hmong Red Cucumber Seed
Can a seed speak of exile and inheritance, red with memory, rooted in the journey of those who gave without words?
A Lick of Forgiveness
Set against the backdrop of wildfires,
the poem explores the uneasy privilege of pleasure in the face of others’ devastation.
Butterfly Blue
The blue pea becomes ever-more scarce for the butterflies who depend on it survive.
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After Hearing a Group of Jews Were Set on Fire in Boulder, Colorado
It's called the world's oldest hatred.
Houston, We Have a Popstar
Katy Perry heads to space on a Blue Origin flight funded by Jeff Bezos, but her head never leaves the clouds.
Real To Me
The WWE is famous for blurring the lines between fact and fiction. What about life and death?
Balance
In San Francisco, manifest destiny meets Land's End.
Donald Trump Meditating on Love
From the trenches of his trade war, it's the President as you've never seen him before: reaching toward enlightenment.
The Guillotine
A report from the scaffold, as Trump moves to purge the Justice Department of those he perceives as disloyal.
Poetics of A.I.
Feu d’Artifice
What is Big Tech asking our children to forget?
Clarity Is Not My Forte
Log notes from an existential crisis in the machine.
Betsy Ross Decides to Burn A Flag
Is the AI revolution following in the footsteps of an American one?
Curiosity Learns
A report from the classrooms of Silicon Valley, where learning is a disappearing act.
Well, Just Don’t Publish Then 🤷♀️
ChatGPT takes the pain out of the writing process. It still hurts.
2024 Election
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Disinherited: A Lament
We once wore the white viburnum of suffragists. And now?
Disabled, After Trump Wins
For West Virginia's most vulnerable, the Trump win is poised to take more than it gives.
May Day, May Day
Bracing for an emergency landing into reality.
