Rereading Alicia Ostriker’s Stealing The Language
I could not have articulated it this way back then, but I felt straitjacketed by much of the male poetic tradition in which I was being educated and in which I understood I would be expected to write
On My Desk Now: I Still Miss The Friend I Wrote This Poem For
More than anyone else in my life, and despite the fact that we came from very, very different backgrounds, Adrienne accepted me for who I was.
On My Desk Now: Some Tentative Thoughts on Confronting Antisemitism in America
Last week, I attended an anti-antisemitism training workshop in my neighborhood cosponsored by Malkhut and Jews for Racial and
On My Desk Now: Junot Díaz and the Double Bind of Male Survivorship
I had hoped in writing my essay to be able to note this complexity and then set it aside, not because I think it’s not important, but because it seemed to me [that it] silenced Díaz as a survivor, short-circuiting the larger discussion about male survivors that his essay might have started.
On My Desk Now: Translating Korean Poetry
I’ve had an interest in translating poetry for as long as I can remember. As an undergraduate, I was
On My Desk Now - January 2026: Either Way, You Choose A Side
“That kind of paralysis is perfectly understandable in a rank and file, whether we’re talking about union members or people on the street. It seems inexcusable to me, however, in those who have been charged with leading the opposition...”
