Good evening readers. Here's a round-up of today's must-read literary news, commentary and fiction.

Poem: "Minefields" by Kyle Dargan: "The frequencies of your silence may cause certain types of men to detonate. " (Buzzfeed)
Forgotten Woman: The life of Misuzu Kaneko: Bringing to light a poet buried in a nearly unmarked grave. (Electric Literature)
Life on Mars: The War of the Worlds and H.G. Wells at 150: Looking back at the author “a central text in the cultural history of Mars.” (TIME)
‘The Story of Egypt’: A look at a gender-bending society where women could rule: A new book revises popular perceptions of one of the world's oldest civilizations. (The Washington Post)
Leaving Aleppo: Crossing Syria's Most Dangerous Checkpoints: A student's circular odyssey from Syria to Turkey and back and his struggle to graduate high school and stay alive. (The Rumpus)
Imagining a World Without Prisons in Communities Defined by Them: America's massive, draconian prison system is getting harder to justify, and calls to abolish it are getting louder. (NPR)
X-Men and the Legacy of AIDS: How superhero comics depicted the epidemic through symbol and metaphor. (The LA Review of Books)
What I Pledge Allegiance To: Thinking about the American flag in times of great injustice. (The Fader)

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