A Suit or a Suitcase A Suit or a Suitcase
You ask what I’ll miss about this life. Everything but cruelty, I think. But you want one specific thing, so here—I’ll miss my body. I’ll miss its companionship, how it’s tr…
Nov 23, 2022 / Poems / Maggie Smith
Is NFL Football a Blood Sport? Is NFL Football a Blood Sport?
On this week's episode of the Edge of Sports podcast, we speak to filmmaker Isaac Solotaroff to talk about his new film, Bloodsport.
Nov 22, 2022 / Podcast / Dave Zirin
The Average Driver Will Be in a Car Accident Once Every Eighteen Years The Average Driver Will Be in a Car Accident Once Every Eighteen Years
Moonship comes when I’m on the road, A/C on, music on, the inside still in, then—zam—wind, unshielded crescents of moon, the body gone, tearing through space at 60 miles per…
Nov 17, 2022 / Poems / Nomi Stone
Kehua / I used to want to be the bait that caught Te Ika Kehua / I used to want to be the bait that caught Te Ika
I lost my nerve for spirits when I was sixteen. Spent that whole spring playing chicken and betraying my grandparents’ liquor cabinets for homies who were too cool to say th…
Nov 10, 2022 / Poems / Tayi Tibble
How We Win the Midterms, Plus Black Landowners in North Carolina How We Win the Midterms, Plus Black Landowners in North Carolina
On this week's episode of the Start Making Sense podcast, Steve Phillips on voting, and Cameron Oglesby on Piney Woods.
Nov 3, 2022 / Podcast / Jon Wiener and Start Making Sense
Stacey Abrams Explains Her Work, and Remembering Mike Davis Stacey Abrams Explains Her Work, and Remembering Mike Davis
On this episode of the Start Making Sense podcast, we talk with the Georgia gubernatorial candidate and play an interview with the late author and friend of The Nation, Mike Davis.
Oct 27, 2022 / Podcast / Jon Wiener and Start Making Sense
the impact of foreign bodies; the earth collapsing the impact of foreign bodies; the earth collapsing
A shadow bisects another, which is to say it enlarges itself The body doubles what it cannot hold I turned on the TV to drown out my heartbeat This hefty crime: to obscure a…
Oct 27, 2022 / Poems / Jennifer S. Cheng
How Black Landowners in the South Are Recovering Lost Generational Wealth How Black Landowners in the South Are Recovering Lost Generational Wealth
Industry encroachment and farm consolidation contributed to decades of Black-owned land loss. In North Carolina, many are fighting to recoup what was lost.
Oct 26, 2022 / Photo Essay / Cameron Oglesby
Can These Farmers Decolonize the Wine Industry? Can These Farmers Decolonize the Wine Industry?
In California and beyond, a new generation of winemaker-activists are using hybrid and indigenous grapes to create transformational change.
Oct 25, 2022 / Photo Essay / Colleen Hamilton
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf Speaks! Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf Speaks!
On this episode of the Edge of Sports podcast, former NBA star and activist Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf joins the show to talk about his new book.
Oct 24, 2022 / Podcast / Dave Zirin