As a news magazine, we are expected to be reasonable—to present the facts, to report what happened, and we are all these things and more. We don’t exclude any truth in any medium.
A hundred pages of poetry— as testimony. Our January 2024 issue 'Poetry As Evidence' was a leap of faith for a newsroom.
Why read poetry? Why stand still and tune into poetry라이브 바카라 cadences in a madly spinning world? Because poetry, as the wise Irish poet Seamus Heaney put it, “inspires a hope that new possibility can still open up.”
Despite the wars and the bloodshed, despite the rise of despots and widening divides, despite fear and heartbreak, poetry showcases the human capacity to speak up, to register injustices, to break free of the shackles of “word limits and sound-bites’’; to celebrate love and empathy, to dream of peace.
