Teaching in the time of COVID-19: a poem. —

On the parking lot and the city park: a poem. — I wander through the city park, its child-call game fields now bare, the joggers few, the changes stark. No half-hid lovers anywhere. The grocery stores’ car parks are packed, but not their shelves, those too are bare. No more canned foods artfully stacked, our accustomed bounty — nowhere! I think…

A young Mexican television star gives fans the courage to be themselves. — Just in the last couple of days, the young Mexican entertainer Joaquín Bondoni has taken the lead in voting for the LGBTQ community’s Queerties Awards in the “Game Changer” category. And just in the last couple of years, the 16-year-old Bondoni has burst upon the entertainment world as an actor…

The vanishing outside the window: a poem. — Down under we’re told are dogs and dingos the dingo got my baby, and the like but Grandfather, visiting there as a boy still saw something doglike outside his window as the train rolled on (moving so fast but with the task of covering those great outback distances the train never seemed to make up much…

On words, poetic and otherwise. — He wrote lovely words, beautiful ones about hyacinths and lantanas, zinnias and spires, Never achieving immortal fame as perhaps he would have liked to, as the poets often delight to. The Santa Fe of his later life, still so far from the broken- bottle alcoholism of the Brooklyn childhood home that held him but did not hold…

A young woman claims her voice. — Professor White was among the most popular teachers on campus and one of the leading anthropologists of his generation. He was — yes — white, tall, slim, with closely-cropped gray hair and beard, and regularly wore a tweed jacket with leather patches at the elbows. If you asked ten people…

A poem of growth — Astonish me, in the birdcall bright of morning, with your lips wet as the blades of grass — those green blades sharp as swords and as sensuous — unfurling outside, aroused to their own worshiping — theirs, praise of the sun, mine, of you. Those green blades unfold in their solar…

Review of Bill McKibben’s “Falter” and David Wallace-Wells’s “The Uninhabitable Earth” — I am no scientist and do not have a particularly scientific mind, as my scientist friends (including fellow Medium writer Fred Shirley) can attest. …

A young, emerging Mexican fashion icon changes attitudes by changing clothes. — As the popular Mexican telenovela Juntos El Corazón Nunca Se Equivoca comes to an end this week, fans are preparing to say goodbye to their beloved show and its trailblazing stars. The stars of the show, Emilio Osorio (as “Aris” Corcega) and Joaquín Bondoni (as “Temo” Lopez), are known internationally…