Poetry by Khalil Elayan
Wood smoke is pervasive and copies my paved serpent, creating barriers among brothers.
Travel
Seasonal
May 02, 2022
Return to New York
May 04, 2020
Report by Keith Langston
The feeling of being protected, of being immune, and of being separate vanished.
The Weight of Departure
Sep 30, 2019
Essay by Eric Stinton
I could move in any direction or be motionless, disconnected from everything—my life back in Korea, my plans to move home.
My Heart Will Go On
Sep 30, 2019
Essay by Hillary Moses Mohaupt
I turned to the only francophone music I could find in northern Illinois: the early Canadian albums of Céline Dion.
Invisible Gardener
Sep 30, 2019
Essay by Valerie Bacharach
I don’t know why I think of her now, standing at the cliff’s edge, nothing before me but water.
Escape from Berlin
Nov 12, 2018
Essay by Jill Bronfman
I felt an overwhelming urge to get the hell out.
Khomeini’s Mausoleum
Oct 01, 2018
Essay by Mojgan Ghazirad
I felt as if I were standing under a giant tent erected on top of a jewelry box that bore the Ayatollah’s body.
Pilgrim, Mother
Jan 29, 2018
Essay by Elisabeth Hedrick-Moser
Every walk I took with my daughter, the world opened before me as if newly created.
Giavanna Munafo: Poem
Apr 18, 2016
TW Poetry Spotlight
Here, in twos and threes, friends cross the piazza
What I’ve Come So Far to Tell Them
Jan 25, 2016
Theme Essay by Robin McCarthy
I understood the blank stares and raw anguish when I asked those students about their homes.
