A (light, quiet, fruitful) ekphrastic poem by Lena Moses-Schmitt, prompted by Cézanne’s “Still Life with Apples” (1898) (cylinder, cone, sphere).

The banana as a marker of former oppression and government destabilization: American advertising, retail imagination, and colonial empire.

The 2018 school workers’ strikes are the first sign of spring for the labor movement, a beginning harvest in a long winter of American austerity.