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Smoke Alarm
.People aren't the only ones concerned about the #RockyFire Spotted this heard of elk several miles from the fire line: image via Brian Hickey @kcraBrianHickey, 4 February 2015I...SmokeThe #RockyFire,...
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Nâzım Hikmet Ran: I Come and Stand At Every Door
.Article of clothing worn by a victim of the 6 August 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, seen in the archive of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum: photo by Ishiuchi Miyako From “Here and Now: Atomic...
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Nâzim Hikmet Ran: Two Poems
.A Turkish police officer questions a Kurdish boy about an attack on fellow officers that left one dead and another wounded. The attack occurred in Diyarbakir, Turkey, a predominantly Kurdish town, and...
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Bertolt Brecht: On Thinking about Hell in Los Angeles, 1941 ("...just when I...
. Socony-Vacuum Oil Company advertisement for Mobilgas: Life, 13 October 1941 (via Gallery of Graphic Design)Bertolt Brecht: On Thinking about Hell On thinking about hell, I gather My brother Shelley...
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Wallace Stevens: A flight of birds that disappeared from the ruin as we...
.A woman attacked by seagulls piece by Banksy, seen during the press view for the artist’s biggest show to date, entitled ‘Dismaland’, at Tropicana in Western-super-Mare, Somerset: photo by Yui Mok/PA,...
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Wislawa Szymborska: Map
.Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae Descriptio: Johannnes de Ram, c. 1685, engravingFlat as the tableit’s placed on.Nothing moves beneath itand it seeks no outlet.Above -- my human...
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At the Border
.#Macedonia - Woman looks up at police blocking migrants trying to cross Macedonian-Greek border #AFP Photo by RAtanasovski #AFP: image via Sophie Chauveau @s_chauveauAFP, 22 August 2015Migrants cross...
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Danger Along the Border
.Colima, México: photo by Millo Salgado, 21 February 2015 I Millo Salgado: On the Other Side Posta de periodicas y revistas. Pueblo, México: photo by Millo Salgado, 2 January 2014Police. Colima,...
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Global Pong (Wave Theory)
.A trader gestures on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the start of the trading day in New York on Monday. Global markets have been reacting to the economic situation in China and the Dow...
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They Have Come This Far, How Much Farther Do They Have To Go?
.Migrant near the railway crossing between Hungary and Serbia: photo by Sandor Ujvari/European Pressphoto Agency, 26 August 2015 Through the fieldsAlong the tracksInto the makeshift encampmentsAlways...
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Unlock the Gates
.Migrants sleep on a bench at a park in Belgrade, Serbia on Friday. Over 10,000 migrants, including many women with babies and small children, have crossed into Serbia over the past few days and headed...
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Day Into Night
A Syrian couple waits for the train in Gevgelija with other refugees and migrants to continue their way to Europe: image via Aris Messinis @arismessinis, 29 August 2015 Refugee arrested after risking...
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Mahmoud Darwish: "In everything there's a being that suffers": Two Poems from...
.Palestinians fight to free a Palestinian boy held by an Israeli soldier during clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters following a march against Palestinian land...
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Boundary Issues
.Migrants storm into a train at the Keleti train station in Budapest. Hungarian police withdrew from the gates after two days of blocking their entry: photo by Laszlo Balogh/Reuters, 3 September 2015...
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Terence Patrick Winch: Today I Went Out
.I haz a bad day. Just one of those days when everything is going wrong: photo by susan402, 27 May 2010Today I went out and broke the sugar bowlsin the restaurants in the city. I movedthe furniture...
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Europe a Prophecy
.Migrants raise hands to catch bottles of water thrown by volunteers of humanitarian organisations as they wait to cross the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni, northern Greece: photo...
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Of Kith and Kin: Braemar: A Royal Gathering / Kobane: Three Funerals and a...
.UK - Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and Prince Charles attend the annual Braemar Gathering. By @acbphoto #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffard, 6 September 2015Good morning. Yesterday The...
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How To Speak American
.Photo from accident on Marin Avenue last night @berkeleyside: image via Big Hammer @UOHammer, 6 September 2015 Marin Circle Fountain (4 Bears Fountain)the morning afterthe remnantsthe leavingsthe...
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Obscurity (Brecht: "This is the year which people will be silent about")
.Migrants rest on a bench as they wait for trains at Keleti station in Budapest, Hungary on Wednesday: photo by Bernadett Szabo/Reuters, 9 September 2015I...Hungary: How To Stop the Refugee Invasion...
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Terence Patrick Winch: Music for Earthlings
.A young migrant boy tries on shoes donated by the people of Hungary at Keleti station in Budapest, Hungary. After days of confrontation and chaos, Hungary unexpectedly opened its borders with Austria,...
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