And when it’s time to say goodnight, someone calls me Joan. Carrie Oeding is the author of “Our List of Solutions” (2011, 42 Miles Press). She is a native of Minnesota.

THE HURTING KIND Poems By Ada Limón. The poet Ada Limón is a welcome companion at this stage of the pandemic. She writes to counter isolation and to usher in change. Her poems presume aloneness ...

my own. For war. is kind, I read. Great is the battle-god and great the auguries, the firing squad, the neon green of night vision that cuts the darkness open at its seams, gutted. and spilling on ...