In late 2025, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman described a new era—the Polycene—characterized by the increasingly complex interplay of powerful forces: AI, climate change, global economics, and geopolitics. These forces accelerate within a highly interconnected system, demanding that humanity address complexity at a planetary scale.In AI and the Crisis of Control (2026), Russell E. Willis explored the consequences of artificial intelligence on this tran...

Artificial intelligence now shapes decisions once guided by human judgment—and in the process, responsibility is quietly disappearing. As AI systems spread through organizations and institutions, leaders find themselves surrounded by power they can neither fully see nor clearly answer for. In AI and the Crisis of Control, Russell E. Willis argues that the central challenge of AI is not runaway machines or malicious intent, but the erosion of human agency inside complex systems. When decisi...

An Alphabet of Embers is an anthology of unclassifiables – lyrical, surreal, magical, experimental pieces that straddle the border between poetry and prose. It lives in a place between darkness and sound, between roads and breaths, its pages taut with starlight; between its covers, words talk to each other, and have an occasional cup of tea.Edited by Rose Lemberg, featuring work by:Alvaro Zinos-AmaroAmal El-MohtarArkady MartineCeleste Rita Baker...

In our first story this month, Liz Coleman’s “Join,” a man who has always felt alienated returns home to visit his family on Earth, and brings with him part of his new family—a newborn, parasitic alien. Most of the universe is the regions between galaxies, yet no stories are ever set in that vast emptiness. In “Bubbles” by David Brin, we get to know Serena, a lonely entity traveling the space between galaxies. D. Thomas Minton’s “Thief of Futures” follows Eshram Kingston...

"This breathtakingly honest collection of writings is alive with deeply felt and beautifully expressed emotions."—Wilma MankillerIn her fifth book, Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American voices, melds memories, dream visions, myths, and stories from America’s brutal history into a poetic whole.

"Charming, melancholy, hip."-Publishers Weekly, starred review"Zapruder's innovative style is provocative in its unusual juxtapositions of line, image and enjambments. . . . Highly recommended."-Library JournalMatthew Zapruder's third book mixes humor and invention with love and loss, as when the breath of a lover is compared to "a field of titanium gravestones / growing warmer in the sun." The title poem is an elegy for the heroes and mentors in the poet'...

Wireless internet arrives from a nearby town/hotel.Email is both the mailbox and the phone.The laptop internet is the TV and the movie theater.We can use a PO box for snail mail.No taxes, no rent, no mortgage.The view is superb.The motorcycle idles,Which is really nothing moreThan a soft purr,As one of my long-lifeLaptop batteries charges up,Waiting to be swapped with the other,Soon to be a dying one.

In this mesmerizing debut collection, chosen by Mary Oliver for the National Poetry Series, we’re witness to an expansive travelogue of the human spirit that moves throughtfully through multiples ages, cultures, and beings. Each poem explores in depth, through pensive, evocative images, aspects of the human condition and their place within the rich continuum of animal existence. W.B. Keckler presents these poems in a fugal form, uniting the individual works in what he describes as a “holis...

Return of the Monkey Mind picks up where Living with the Monkey Mind left off – as another collection of random subjects that have narcissistically been deemed interesting: the nature of existence, the capricious nature of love, and the profound presence of poultry.In this second collection, formal constructs such as Haiku and Tanka sit side by side with free verse and experimental forms. Serious subjects abound, but so does the occasional attempt at humor. All in all, Return of th...

Will you step intoMy web? You will like it here.No one ever leavesThere are some who believe that the honor of a samurai is reserved for men. But they are wrong.A daughter of a samurai picks up her father's sword and becomes a legend. Each stroke of the sword is as precise as the stroke of a brush.The haikus herein are spread across the eight-book epic saga Warrior Woman of the Samurai, but collected here for your enjoyment.

An army of men that set about cleaning the moon each month. A cursed queen. A man whose job is to create moons. A love story. A couple overwhelmed by the emptiness of their home. A lonely deity. All these stories - and more - are centered around the theme of the moon and can be found in the pages of The Suicide of the Moon.In this collection of twelve flash fiction stories (super short stories), the moon is portrayed as many things: capricious, rebellious, sad, dangerous, ...