Ray Bradbury Challenge
2026-10-22
Essay: Sy Safransky "This Is Hard to Write" https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/590-this-is-hard-to-write
Story: Marie-Helene Bertino "Flowers and Their Meanings" https://thebaffler.com/latest/flowers-and-their-meanings-bertino
Poem: Rae Armantrout "New Intelligence" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/54277/new-intelligence
2026-10-21
Essay: Tatiana Schlossber “A Further Shore” https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/a-battle-with-my-blood
Poem: Reina María Rodríguez "memory of water" translated by Joel Brouwer & Jessica Stephenson https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/54756/memory-of-water
Short story: Colm Tóibín "Five Bridges" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/10/five-bridges-fiction-colm-toibin
2026-10-20
Essay: Zadie Smith "The Art of the Impersonal Essay" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/29/the-art-of-the-impersonal-essay
Poem: Gerard Manley Hopkins "On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People" https://www.poetry.com/poem/15873/on-the-portrait-of-two-beautiful-young-people
Short story: Holly Black "Lights Out" https://blackholly.com/lights-doctor-story-available-tomorrow/