Hearts & Bones
Today, I am a placeholder for a vote that hasn't yet been cast.
8 Years of Journalism in Verse
2024 Election
Patriotism
A jubilant celebration and a fresh wound, all at once.
Heartsick, But Singing
Today, America needs us more than ever.
26 Doors in Racine, Wisconsin
America's fault lines are deepening. Just ask an election canvasser.
Hope Again / Again, Hope
For an election with no easy answers.
I Buy a Star Projector to Get Me Through the Election
It wasn’t easy. It isn’t now. It won’t be, ever.
Editor's Picks
Speaking in America
By Roxana L. Cazan. The personal and political intertwine during Kamala Harris' speech.
Abe’s Awful Dream
By Matthew Murrey. The Republican party has become unrecognizable to its former self.
Remembering Long-Ago Dreams of My Mother
By Elizabeth J. Coleman. Dreams of American greatness.
Still I Will Not Wear His Name [AUDIO]
By Emily Ruth Hazel. Less than half of all the arms raised were for him.
All Hallow's Eve
Dear Jack O’Lantern
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright. A love poem to the mighty jack o'lantern.
Mummies Versus Poets
By Rob Carney. This Halloween, a foray into a surprising intersection between Egyptian mummmies and poetry.
Halloween in the Anthropocene
By Craig Santos Perez. Even tomorrow will be haunted.
Latest
Forty-Two Days Until the Election
In the lead-up to the vote, omens and anxieties are hard to tell apart.
Blue Innocents
"That you died no one would doubt."
Open Carry
Carry the decency to not cause us harm.
The Thrashing
In the Florida Keys, fish like the endangered sawtooth are circling to death. What prophecy is this?
Collapse of the Key Bridge
What is a port? Only a mouth to enter.
An American Jew Speaks With a Ceaseless Witness
Gaza is not yours to dream.
Miscarriage
A letter to the Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade, making miscarriage deadlier than ever.
Bear
Women on TikTok ask: would you rather be in the woods with a man or bear? There's nothing abstract about it.
Poetics of A.I.
Betsy Ross Decides to Burn A Flag
Is the AI revolution following in the footsteps of an American one?
Feu d’Artifice
What is Big Tech asking our children to forget?
Clarity Is Not My Forte
Log notes from an existential crisis in the machine.
Curiosity Learns
A report from the classrooms of Silicon Valley, where learning is a disappearing act.
