The editors of West Trade Review are looking for essays that explore creative life expansively conceived (broader than only literary).

We are seeking personal essays exploring creative practice, support for the literary or creative life, etc.
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Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) [playlist-friendly] YouTube video by Pete Falco

Over 50 years later, Marvin Gaye’s 1971“Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)” was one of the first mainstream songs to directly address environmental pollution and ecological destruction. The song laments oil spills, radiation, and toxic waste & was revolutionary at the time. #Earthday

Systemic poverty is a type of multicultural genocide.
Think of all the gifted humans who could never reach their full potential because they had to scrape to survive every moment of their lives. Think of all the masterpieces of art and literature we are missing out on. Everyone loses out.

The Indigenous Chefs That Inspire Food As Medicine On The Latest ‘Chopped’ Episode Competitors on the latest episode of "Chopped" include Justin Pioche (Navajo), Ray Naranjo (Santa Clara Pueblo), Jessica Walks First (Menominee) and Mariah Gladstone (Blackfeet, Cherokee). Judges incl...

After 64 seasons on television the Food Network show ‘Chopped’ aired its first ever episode with all Native American contestants. I interviewed the winner Justin Pioche, a Diné chef that runs a kitchen with his mom and sister. nativenewsonline.net/arts-enterta...

Do you have a young creative (ages 5-13)? Do they write stories? Non-fiction? Poetry? Do they draw? Take photos?

@litkidsmagazine.bsky.social is looking for submissions! The theme for the upcoming issue is Folklore/Mythology. Submissions are open until 5/15/26.
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[Water Lilies by Beatrix Potter]

I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

7 Innovative Collections From Poets Without MFAs - Electric Literature With no institution advising these writers where to go, they go everywhere

Fresh praise for COMMON DISASTER! "Cheung is a musician: often brutal subjects cast in lucid lines, beauty rendered without consolation...If a person is a crossing of multiple histories, few #poets trace that crossing with such immediacy and tenderness." electricliterature.com/7-innovative... 📚💙🎉

WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

Painting focused on a tulip plant with yellow and red blossom and butterfly and insect on its leaves, all against a black background

'Parrot tulip with butterfly and beetle' by Barbara Regina Dietzsch (1706-1783) Bavarian painter and engraver who sold her work throughout Europe #womensart

This is Achrioptera manga, a giant phasmid or stick insect native to Madagascar.

The specific epithet, "manga" means blue in Malagasy & it's not hard to see why. Only males are blue.

The tiny back wings ("alae") are an example of brachyptery: they're useless for flight, but have other functions.

“You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.”

— Duke Ellington

Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas not only recorded an anthem for the civil rights era – they fought for fair pay and proudly called themselves divas Classic songs ‘Nowhere to Run’ and ‘Dancing in the Street’ captured the revolutionary spirit of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.

Wrote a piece about Martha and the Vandellas, civil rights, and their place in the history of Black women R&B groups. I also created a YouTube playlist (in the comments) with some of their hits

my time has come. time to make some weird shit

BREAKING: We just won our antitrust trial against LiveNation and Ticketmaster.

Live Nation has raked in billions in profits from an illegal monopoly that coerces venues, restricts artists, and exploits fans.

This is a massive win in the fight for fairness for local venues, artists, and fans.

This is a good visualization for people to understand the problem we have on this planet.

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Need something to take your mind off taxes? Come stare at colors and shapes with us. Art creation makes everything better.

Statement of Teaching Philosophy Amritha Selvarajaguru is a first-year grad student working towards her MFA in Poetry at the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, who aspires to be an English teacher one day. She is deeply inspire...

Check out the lastest publication at @porcupinelit.bsky.social

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If you are a teacher who writes about teaching, you should submit work to us!

Less than two weeks left before submissions for our next issue close. Tell us the things you notice when you're coming at it from the outside. What other way to really see a thing so clearly? heroinchic.weebly.com

The labor economics of 'Alien' — and its lessons for inequality on Earth Behind the acid blood and jump scares of the Alien franchise is an even more insidious horror: a single employer with unchecked power. How Weyland-Yutani helps explain monopsony — and the rise of inequality on Earth.

Behind the acid blood and jump scares of the Alien franchise is an even more insidious horror: a single employer with unchecked power. How Weyland-Yutani helps explain monopsony — and the rise of inequality on Earth. n.pr/4dGFaCl

The corporate enablers of the ICE crackdown How Amazon, AT&T, and Citizens Bank are profiting from the administration’s mass deportation campaign.

Citizens Bank has largely flown under the radar as a major financier of ICE detention companies.

Not anymore. 🧵

“It took many years
of vomiting up all the filth I'd been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the Earth as though I had a right to be here.”
- James Baldwin

If you're a poet or a lover of poetry please help me spread the word about these remarkable books by some of the finest disabled poets writing today.

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hey i’m being real fucking serious right now

call your reps. this is insane. he already had thousands of jobs removed from the us fish and wildlife service. dismantling the us forest service will have a devastating impact on habitat protections.

im too mad for words.

YOU MUST HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT TO HAVE STRENGTH TO CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES.

Fungi are considered distinct organisms belonging to their own unique kingdom, not plants. While they were historically classified with plants, they are biologically more closely related to animals.

a woman with braided hair and a bravo logo on the shoulder Alt: a woman with braided hair and a bravo logo on the shoulder is staring knowingly.

Did y'all know that pharmaceutical companies RARELY test medications on female subjects..? Despite the fact that different genders have different metabolisms...? And several of the medications people use routinely were tested with NO female subjects....?

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is a reminder that most of the bench has never seen the inside of a trial court or a public defender’s office.

She’s schooling folks how this actually works.

I do not and will never use GenAI in my writing. No, not even for grammar checks. Hell, I don’t even use oldschool referencing software – I still do my footnotes manually.

I LIKE writing.

Residential ‘school’ survivors reunited with childhood art, hidden for decades: ‘They’ve survived, the same as all of us’ When a priest reputedly ordered a teacher to destroy children's paintings, he instead hid them at home — now the pieces are seeing the light of day

“All of these paintings were supposed to be destroyed by the instructions of that priest,” said Eugene Arcand, a MacKay survivor from Muskeg Lake First Nation.

“But they’ve survived, the same as all of us have survived.”

Story by Crystal Greene

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