From The Next Ancient World Even Eve, the only soul in all of time to never have to wait for love, must have leaned some sleepless nights alone against the garden wall and wailed, cold, stupefied, and wild and wished to trade-in all of Eden to have but been a child. In fact, I gather […]

From The Next Ancient World Praise wild dancing in the kitchen. Praise sitting and talking to the doctor. Praise phone calls from my sister. Praise phone calls from you, a little drunk, leaning toward me. Praise old lovers who show up when they are needed. Praise our mothers, safe in another state. Praise my apartment […]

Jennifer Michael Hecht reads her poem compelling people to resist death and stay in this world.

Jennifer Michael Hecht reads her poem “Men Wept”

To embrace life despite the truth of suffering is an audacious act. Jennifer Michael Hecht guides us through Albert Camus on the myth of Sisyphus, as a reassuringly contrary argument for life over death.