Feu d’Artifice
What is Big Tech asking our children to forget?
Journalism in Verse
Poetics of A.I.
Betsy Ross Decides to Burn A Flag
Is the AI revolution following in the footsteps of an American one?
A.I. Lies
Of course, it does. Everyone does.
Curiosity Learns
A report from the classrooms of Silicon Valley, where learning is a disappearing act.
I’m Not A Robot…
There's a certain bridge AI cannot cross.
Clarity Is Not My Forte
Log notes from an existential crisis in the machine.
My Job
"A man I’ve never seen before says AI could do my job..."
Well, Just Don’t Publish Then 🤷♀️
ChatGPT takes the pain out of the writing process. It still hurts.
Food As Invocation
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A Lick of Forgiveness
Set against the backdrop of wildfires,
the poem explores the uneasy privilege of pleasure in the face of others’ devastation.
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.
In the Cauldron
Read this rhythmic chant of ingredients and transformation, and become captivated by the alchemy of the kitchen.
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?
Cutting Strawberries
A tender act of making becomes a moment of quiet undoing.
Ode to the Mission Fig
Sweetness and sacrifice intertwine, and hunger binds us to the ancient cycles of life, death, and rebirth.
Butterfly Blue
The blue pea becomes ever-more scarce for the butterflies who depend on it survive.
Politics
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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.
Next Among the Countless Gales
"These sessions sound like hope—hope I’ll need while other wings approach."
Latest
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.
