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A close-up image of a black bug against a light-gray background — Trent Parke / Magnum

The Bug

A poem for Wednesday

Daniella Toosie-Watson

January 18, 2023

A sunflower against a blue background — Alec Soth / Magnum

Today I Love Being Alive

A poem for Sunday

January 15, 2023

A metal slide in the sun — Trent Parke / Magnum

For the Child(ren) I Cannot Carry

A poem for Sunday

Cynthia Dewi Oka

January 8, 2023

A black and white image of a group of children on a playground — Bettman / Getty

Another White Male Writer

A poem for Wednesday

Mahogany L. Browne

January 4, 2023

An illustration a small figure and a larger figure pointing at each other, both standing on a line balanced on the pointed roof of a house — Daniel Liévano

Jacob and Esau

A poem for Sunday

January 1, 2023

A birch tree with green and yellow pain smears on it — Miki Lowe

A Black Birch in Winter

Published in The Atlantic in 1974

December 25, 2022

A girl sits on a rock blowing a gum bubble, while two girls in the distance play fight on a green field under a highway. — Justine Kurland

Girls’ School

A poem for Sunday

December 18, 2022

Illustrations of a face with hands around its mouth, calling out; a leaf with a fractured tip; and a sun behind clouds — Daniel Liévano

The Shout

A poem for Wednesday

December 14, 2022

collage illustration with archive black and white photo of WWI soldiers running in front of military vehicles, green background and yellow circle — Imperial War Museums / Getty; The Atlantic

The Anabasis of Godspeed

Ishion Hutchinson

December 11, 2022

Skyscrapers pasted onto a beige background with red, blue, and black squares — Miki Lowe

Mayakovsky in New York: A Found Poem

Published in The Atlantic in 1994

December 4, 2022