Michael Kleber-Diggs is a poet, essayist, literary critic, and arts educator. He is the author of the poetry collection ...

The spadix of the skunk cabbage, however, is thermogenic. It knows how to make its own heat, like a warmblooded animal.

Ape: v. To imitate, to mimic (pretentiously, irrationally, or absurdly). To mimic the reality. (See also parrot.) Bat: v. To hit away, to strike or hit a ball with a bat. There is also the US ...

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In return, they laid more eggs than I could eat. In summer when insects were their chief diet—ants being plentiful, and ...

Join Orion magazine, Radiolab, and Lambda Literary to celebrate the launch of Orion’s spring 2025 issue, Queer Planet: A Celebration of Biodiversity. This virtual event will feature two contributors ...

APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH, and we want to celebrate it with you! What follows is a list of, and a few lines from, twelve poems that we’ve published over the years and can’t stop thinking about.

From You Are a Sacred Place © by Madeleine Jubilee Saito. Reprinted with permission of Andrews McMeel. This piece contains affiliate links for Bookshop.org, a ...

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