Often people ask me how I am doing. Perhaps as a courtesy, perhaps sincerely, perhaps to know a different reality than their own. Sometimes it’s...

I remember the first time I was called a poet. It was four years ago at the Worker Writers School monthly workshop. Davidson Garrett, a...

As she watches the films of Jean-Luc Godard while in lockdown, Joanna Walsh considers the boundaries of Paris, beauty, and desire—in life and film. She...

In this exercise in allegory, Cole Lu weaves together narratives of historical truths, half-truths, and propaganda, presenting a snippet in the artist's ongoing research-based exploration...

In this flash-fiction piece from K-Ming Chang, a Chinese woman, who has been quarantined for two weeks in her daughter’s garage after being fired from...

This essay from Tameka Blackshir serves, in part, as an important reminder of why Coffee House launched the CHWP back in April. As we head...

Ask me what music I’ve been listening to during this pandemic and my mind goes blank. I know that selective listening has gotten me through...

Poets Bernadette Mayer and Philip Good make an occasional practice of collaborating on a generative exercise to mark the changing of the seasons. You’ll see...

Shuchi Saraswat calls our attention to windows. What they do, what they can mean to people. In the early days of the pandemic, watching the...