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A photo of an American flag with red, white, and blue neon lights shining through it — Harry Gruyaert / Magnum

America in 2025

A poem

February 12, 2025

On the left, a photo of a yellow streetlamp against a backdrop of bare, craggly branches and a dark blue sky. On the right, an image of a concrete sidewalk and its seams. — Jasmine Clarke for The Atlantic

Jethro’s Corner

A poem for Sunday

Reginald Dwayne Betts

February 9, 2025

A color photograph of a brown field of grasses and orange and white flowers — Alamy Stock Photo

Reflections

Czesław Miłosz

February 2, 2025

An photo of wispy clouds with a blurry sun, and pink dots across the image — Tom Huber / Connected Archives

Cloud Pantoum

A poem for Sunday

January 26, 2025

A black-and-white photograph of a house with a stream running near it, surrounded by trees and water — Timothy H. O'Sullivan / Library of Congress

The Millworker’s Wife

A poem for Sunday

Cheyenne McGuire

January 19, 2025

A white deer walking through a row of trees with bare branches looks over its shoulder — Gregory Halpern / Magnum

We stay and its ours

A poem for Sunday

January 12, 2025

line sketch of a smaller person leading a larger person by the hand on beige background — Illustration by Liz Hart

Or (For Isaac)

Daniel Borzutzky

January 5, 2025

purple flowers on a tiled floor — Brook Mitchell / Getty

Birthmark

A poem for Wednesday

January 1, 2025

the top half of the photo shows an upside down landscape, with clouds above mountains and a dark starry sky above that. the sky bleeds into an image of a person's face in the dark — Prin Rodriguez

Bridge of the Gods

A poem for Sunday

December 29, 2024

a man holding an old-fashioned vacuum cleaner, collaged onto a dark purple-brown and cream background — Miki Lowe

The Custodian

A poem published in The Atlantic in 2011

December 22, 2024