The Tenth Parallel

She returns us to the most basic truth of human existence: that the world and its people are interconnected.
– Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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Dispatches From America

Everyone is an Immigrant

Eliza Griswold featured in the most recent issue of The Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Magazine. Listen to Podcast here.   Everyone Is an Immigrant Poetry and reportage in Lampedusa. Two paramedics, a man and a woman wearing green and blue scrubs, toss biscotti to seagulls. They glance out at the open ocean. Behind them, at the [...]

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No More Ohio

For the past several years, as Pennsylvanians have increasingly cried foul over the disposal of fracking wastewater in local treatment plants, gas companies have shipped the millions of gallons of water used in the fracking process to nearby Ohio. Unlike Pa, Ohio’s geology allows for deep water injection wells, which are pockets deep in the [...]

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