A RipRap Along the Rivers
By Jane Yolen. D.C.'s historic Black headstones were dumped in a faraway river. But injustice doesn't wash away that easily.
Journalism in Verse
The Pretzel Et Al
By Jane Yolen. A mother is forced to wait behind childless tourists for a pretzel at Disney World. In the distance, sirens.
Whose Father?
By Jane Yolen. This Founding Father mural is stoking national controversy. Whose colonial narrative is it, anyway?
To A Ugandan Granddaughter
By Jane Yolen. Ugandan activist Stella Nyanzi is serving an 18-month prison sentence for her vagina-centric political poetry.
Moving Money: A Sermon
By Jane Yolen. This week's poetry challenge winner takes on Facebook's plan for a new global cryptocurrency.
