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You’re reading a guest post on PopPoetry by Elspeth Wilson. Elspeth is a writer, facilitator, and mentor from the UK. She is the co-founder of the Writing Happiness Project. You can follow her at @ellijwilson on Twitter and @elspethwrites on Instagram. Pitch a PopPoetry Guest Post Poetry was in my life growing up—I just didn’t recognize it. Sure, I studied poems like “To His Coy Mistress” and “My Last Duchess” and was instructed by teachers on their meanings so that I could do well in my English exams.

Cloud 9 doesn’t do a tifo—a fancy Italian soccer word for a large banner hung from the stadium rafters—for every home game of NJ/NY Gotham FC, the National Women’s Soccer League team that the fan group devotes itself to. It usually does one for the home opener, for Pride Night and for special occasions. When the supporters group realized that the team’s final home game of the regular season fell on Halloween, that was reason enough to begin planning a spooky tifo.

I am always in awe of the stamina and creativity required to be a successful columnist, and intrigued by what a columnist chooses to give to a reader – and at what cost. Which is why I was so excited to speak to one of the most adored columnists Annie Lord, who has been writing dating columns for Vogue since July 2020 and who has just announced that her first book, Notes on Heartbreak, will be published June 2022.

When you use a custom workout in Apple Watch (such as the dynamic run sets coming to Training Today any day now), you can receive various alerts to keep you at the right effort throughout your workout. The available alerts vary depending on the type of workout you are doing. For example, running outdoors gives you pace, heart rate, cadence, and power. And for outdoor cycling, you get Speed, Heart Rate, Cadence, Power

This week, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced that he had applied for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas's leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, for war crimes. The ICC judges must now decide whether or not there is sufficient evidence to issue those warrants, a process that could take months. The current death toll in Gaza, via the BBC, is about 35,500, a large portion of whom are children.

The U.S. Navy’s Diving and Salvage Center can be found in a location as obscure as its name—down what was once a country lane in rural Panama City, a now-booming resort city in the southwestern panhandle of Florida, 70 miles south of the Alabama border. The center’s complex is as nondescript as its location—a drab concrete post-World War II structure th… ncG1vNJzZmirla66sMHRoZyrq5hjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89on6ivXZa6pr7InJhmrJ%2BkuG671K1kraCVYruwvsNmqq2qlZa6

Fox’s animated sitcom King of the Hill premiered in 1997, and was about a family reckoning with the pain of being excruciatingly working-class-white in a post-Reagan America. It’s famous for an opening sequence in which four white men stand in a line, in front of a tall wooden fence, sipping cans of beer as the world passes them by. This vignette is frequently repeated throughout the show’s 13 seasons, as Hank, the patriarch of the Hill family, and his three close friends, Bill, Dale and Boomhauer retreat from their homes and speak to each other in a nuanced mono-syllabic dialect that consists almost exclusively of the word ‘yup’.

Welcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication by me, David Lat. You can learn more about Original Jurisdiction by reading its About page, and you can email me at davidlat@substack.com. This is a reader-supported publication; you can subscribe by clicking here. Thanks! What’s the most widely cited legal book in the world? If you guessed Black’s Law Dictionary, then congratulate yourself. Henry Campbell Black published the first edition in 1891, and today it’s a must-have for every lawyer and law student.

“When the writer isn’t convinced by the ending, how can the audience be?” This line by Su-hyuk to Bora in their penultimate episode might as well be a reflection by Writer Ah Kyung on Bora! Deborah’s own final stretch. For most of the drama, our OTP spent their time and energies getting over their own exes, while also forming a support group of two. Aside from unending scenes of needless humiliation for the heroine, the drama mostly focused on how Bora makes peace with her break up and realises that her relationship had never been perfect.