Jessica Swoboda

1 month ago | commonwealmagazine.org | Anthony Domestico |Thomas Banchoff |Vincent Lloyd |Jessica Swoboda

“Uneasy Equations,” the final poem in Scott Cairns’s latest collection, begins, as so many of his poems do, in the middle of a conversation:I, also, have begun to press each promising page for that elusive form, the likelyshape that might yet serve to at least suggest the rolling spaciousness one suspectsin most prágmata one happens upon—the sea, the shore, even the odd black shelljust now recovered during my morning snorkel.

Aug 25, 2023 | thepointmag.com | Jessica Swoboda

More than Trophies | | When U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team stalwart Julie Ertz (“JJ”) announced her retirement after their loss to Sweden in the Round of 16 at this year’s World Cup, it gutted me more than the loss itself.

Jul 19, 2023 | thepointmag.com | Jessica Swoboda

Your Hatch alarm clock gently brightens your bedroom, tricking you into thinking you’re rising with the sun. You yawn as you sit up, stretching out your arms with a smile on your face to signal you’re excited for the day ahead. You go directly to the kitchen, where your pebbled-ice machine and caffeinated greens await you. Or maybe you’re more of a Nespresso latte kind of girl, with the ratio of caramel or vanilla syrup to espresso tilting in the syrup’s direction.