Photo from Kyiv This is not the flag we want to see, white plume, streaked with red, drooping above the rubble from the blackened...

There are many organizations providing aid to the people of Ukraine. Here are just four: World Central Kitchen (wck.org) Ukraine Relief |...

What We Wake To Is What We Fell Asleep To We pass a cup back and forth, burning the tips of our fingers. It is filled with yesterday’s...

The Basement Down here, the thunder above ghosts in your ears, you hear a rush; a surge from tonight's rain, drown the tip of one...

Song for Ukraine Kyiv trembles like an old man clutching his cane but insisting he walk. A child presses against a chain link fence...

Overnight War (A Golden Shovel) Young men march away– the mountain greenness is at its peak Santoka Taneda (1882-1940; tr. John Stevens)...

O UKRAINE! i. Twilight may bloom pink And covertly maroon As a lover’s young adult bottom. The insistently re-articulated song Of a...

How Shabby, Poetry How soft and useless against a tank. The dark fills up the streets like water. We are all slogging through it, thigh...

Craters The question is to yourself. The ghosts are silent. This could have been a place to package meat products; that, a schoolhouse. ...

Luck There was nothing new, just war, famine, earthquakes, storms, scandals, trade wars, tariffs, political corruption, and murder, as...

Sick God how I’m sick of old men flinging fistfuls of pocket change with their profiles in high relief. Sick of their megaphone mouths,...

Equinox up where I can’t reach is a Y-incision in the sky, sliced by returning geese far away, where I can’t hear, war cracks and whines...

Foreword Doug Anderson How Shabby, Poetry Mimi White An Old Human Song Matthew Lippman They Will Always Remember There Were Kids Like...

An Old Human Song Go home, go back to your mother’s gardens. Go back to your bowl of borsht. Go back through the border without fences or...

In Store In Novokuznetsk, a coal mining town in Siberia, a morgue worker posted a video in which he appeared to walk on bodies in bags....

Weapons Staying calm is a kind of weapon. ~former Ukrainian Parliament member So is offering a phone call to an enemy soldier. So is...

Poison Pens

Equinox in Ukraine March 2022 Spring’s coming—so the calendar says. Fallow ground should be plowed, new seeds bought, saved seeds...