Poetry has the power to transform minds and bring forth powerful moments of introspection. In celebration of April’s designation as National Poetry Month, TheHumanist.com is running another haiku contest. Our first haiku contest in September... Read More

Gone Tomorrow We venture out in the morning The two of us Venture into traffic Start towards work At home here Not because we vote as our neighbors Not because we know them Or root... Read More

Philip Appleman died on April 11, 2020. He was a poet, novelist, editor, and humanist. Appleman earned degrees from Northwestern University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Lyon. During World War II he... Read More

TheHumanist.com is pleased to announce the winners of our first-ever humanist haiku contest! Two weeks ago we asked readers to express their thoughts on current global calamities and triumphs through an evocative poem. Submissions were... Read More

send ruminations to TheHumanist.com via short haiku Poetry has the power to transform minds and bring forth powerful moments of introspection. And with our shell-shocked world seemingly careening from crisis to crisis, we could all... Read More

  I need patience today, so I Google it to find patience comes from patientia, meaning sufferance, submissiveness, passiveness, enduring—all of this without complaining. Patience, an old-fashioned name the Puritans borrow from the Bible and... Read More

“The monster of modernity must be slowed.” —Roger Cohen, May 8, 2020, the New York Times Water, lime and sand made an ancient holy space—smothered by conquest’s heavy stones. As the conqueror’s walls collapse with... Read More