Poetry
In Memory of C.K. Williams (1936-2015)
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams reads "Tar" and "The Day Continues Lovely."
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams reads "Tar" and "The Day Continues Lovely."
by Kitcher, Lewis and Cohn-Sherbok, Kownacki and Snyder, Morinis, Shapiro, Loy, Walsch, and Mangabeira
Speaking OUT: Queer Youth in Focus
by Rachelle Lee Smith, Graeme Taylor, and Candace Gingrich
PM Press, 2014
Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion
Edited by Ryan Conrad
AK Press, 2014
As state after state approves gay marriage, it can be tempting to jump to the conclusion that the most pressing issues for LGBTQ people have been “solved.” Taken together, these two books offer an illuminating reality check. Speaking OUT, a photo essay that pairs photographic portraits with handwritten reflections from youth who identify as queer, offers a glimpse of the wide range of experiences that comprise life for queer youth today. Some teens express a sense of deep joy about the loving support they received from their entire community upon coming out (“the response was 100 percent supportive—100 percent!” exclaims contributor Graeme Taylor), attesting to the meaningful shifts that have taken place culturally within the last half-century. But others describe experiences of physical assault, rejection, and discrimination, attesting to the continued lived realities of homophobia and transphobia in the current era. Ryan Conrad’s anthology, meanwhile, offers a hard-edged political analysis of the many forms of oppression that mainstream efforts such as the marriage equality campaign will never solve.
As the earth heats up, sea levels rise, and thousands of species face extinction, it’s easy to boomerang between denial and despair.
What would it mean to take seriously the Torah’s call for the cancellation of all debts and the equal redistribution of property every fifty years?
Many liberal and progressive people continue to be unaware of the truly radical notions of God that progressive theologians and believers are exploring.
by Susan Tumarkin Goodman and T.J. Clark
America needs a spiritual Left—not a soul-deprived, economistic, and narrowly rights-oriented movement that plays into the hands of the Right.
by Frederick Douglas, Byron Williams, and Jeannine Bell
by Antonio González and George S. Johnson
by Joel Magnuson, Lester R. Brown, and James Gustave Speth