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A square in the shape of an app on an iPhone screen shows the wings of two birds against a blue sky, and that square is against a blue sky — Getty; The Atlantic

Why I Needed To

A poem for Sunday

September 4, 2022

Light from a window on bright teal wall — Alec Soth / Magnum

Museum

A poem for Sunday

August 28, 2022

Boats with bright red sails on the ocean, one sail close up to the camera and covering the top half of the frame — Peter Marlow / Magnum

Privacy

A poem for Sunday

Melissa Cundieff

August 21, 2022

A collage of photos of sunflowers and goldenrod — Miki Lowe

August

A poem by Helen Hunt Jackson, published in The Atlantic in 1876

August 14, 2022

illustration of a building's ornately corniced roofline and windows — Gabriela Pesqueira

Hotel Earth

James Longenbach

August 6, 2022

A black and white photo of two men and a woman dancing, on a crowded dance floor — Bettmann / Getty

Benediction

A poem for Wednesday

August 3, 2022

A group of young people lying on the beach, drinking in the sand at night — Bruce Davidson / Magnum Photos

Bring the OJ

A poem for Sunday

July 31, 2022

A silhouette of a statue on a stand with a photo of the clay soldiers inside the lines — Miki Lowe

The Day I Saw the Emperor’s Clay Soldiers

Published in The Atlantic in 2008

Jonathan Musgrove

July 24, 2022

A skinny dog in a black and white photo leaves a tall shadow on the ground — Elliott Erwitt / Magnum

Portrait of the Artist With the Family Dog

A poem for Wednesday

July 20, 2022

The left half is plain grey, the right half is a man in a tuxedo with a mustache, his face obscured — Pacifico Silano

Party Politics

A poem for Sunday

Kyle Carrero Lopez

July 17, 2022