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Illustration by Gabriela Pesqueira / The Atlantic. Sources: George C. Beresford / Stringer / Getty; Igor Golovniov / Getty.

A Room of One’s Own

June 7, 2023

A black and white photo of an earthworm in the soil — Alexandra Ionescu

Near Darwin

A poem for Wednesday

May 31, 2023

image of reflections on water — Devin Oktar Yalkin

Tidal

A poem for Sunday

May 28, 2023

someone's arm around a man's bare back — Christopher Anderson / Magnum

Masculinity

A poem for Sunday

Megan Fernandes

May 21, 2023

Images of the Chrysler Building and two silhouettes cut out in front of it surround a drawing of two jacks and a red ball — Miki Lowe

A Week Later

Published in The Atlantic in 2002

May 17, 2023

a yellow finch on a branch — Smith Collection / Gado / Getty

Life List

A poem for Sunday

May 14, 2023

Illustration by Gabriela Pesqueira / The Atlantic. Source: JHU Sheridan Libraries / Gado / Getty.

Disaster

May 7, 2023

The counter of a Crown Fried Chicken — Photograph by Elias Williams for The Atlantic

Nostrand and Lincoln

A poem for Wednesday

May 3, 2023

A black and white photo of boys playing drums in Belfast in 1991 — Patrick Zachmann / Magnum

The Comic Turn

A poem for Sunday

April 30, 2023

A yellow house at sunset — Thomas Jordan

AAAAdam

A poem for Sunday

April 23, 2023