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A silhouette of a person in front of a body of water at sunset — Jonas Bendiksen / Magnum

Marco Antonio

A poem for Wednesday

Kyle Carrero Lopez

April 19, 2023

drawing of child with speech bubbles shaped like question mark, heart, rainbow, explosion, and other shapes on light-blue background — Gabriela Pesqueira

Argument With a Child

April 16, 2023

A black-and-white photo of Mark Strand with a red-and-green strip of paper over his eyes and a black smudge on the side — Miki Lowe

Sailing to Italy

Published in The Atlantic in 1963

April 9, 2023

A blur of red leaves with a building in the background — Robert Rieger / Connected Archives

The Light in Autumn

A poem for Sunday

April 2, 2023

A black-and-white, grainy image of a child's legs in motion, on a background that's half beige and half red — Photo-Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic. Source: Steve Lewis / Getty.

The Gun

March 29, 2023

A white table with a pomegranate sliced down the middle on a white plate, and two glasses of pomegranate juice — Laura Letinsky / Yancey Richardson Gallery / GalleryStock

The Vendor of New Hearts

A poem for Sunday

March 26, 2023

In a black-and-white photo, a watch hangs off an unmade bed cast in shadows. — Sergio Larrain / Magnum

Before

A poem for Wednesday

Olivia Clare Friedman

March 22, 2023

A square of light over sand on the sea — Gregory Halpern / Magnum

Friendship, 1963

A poem for Sunday

March 19, 2023

A silhouette of someone playing a cello in black paint strokes against a white background — Miki Lowe

The Cellist

Published in The Atlantic in 1994

March 12, 2023

two men lying in the grass facing each other — Peter Marlow / Magnum

Tuesday

March 7, 2023