The Sun Magazine

I have been thinking that people all over the world these days are feeling a sense of despair because, like me, they are seeing the destruction of the world as they knew it. But it has occurred to me that the real destruction of my world happened in 1948, when the Palestinians lost Palestine.

Jared Harél’s poetry collection Let Our Bodies Change the Subject won the 2023 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize. He lives in Westchester, New York, with his wife and two kids. (jaredharel.com)

Leath Tonino seems like a nice-enough guy, but that doesn’t mean he should be trusted around facts. In his March 2026 essay, “Eating Free,” he claims to be nearly positive that his grandma’s friend, who gave him homemade chocolates for Christmas thirty-some years ago, was named Dotti. Well, according to Tonino’s father, the woman’s name was actually Dolly.

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He places the misshapen square / in the hole of my face—how easy to complete, to mend us, to turn / what was missing into what is found.

At the restaurant with white linens / and candles in glass cups, I remember, / my grandfather sent back the soup.