Blue Innocents
"That you died no one would doubt."
8 Years of Journalism in Verse
An American Jew Speaks With a Ceaseless Witness
Gaza is not yours to dream.
The Same Sky Stretches Above All of Our Heads
By Shehrbano Naqvi. A portrait of a family in Gaza.
The Trail of Tears at 120 MPH
By Martha Highers. We’re breaking all speed limits to get to there.
A Dead Child is a Dead Child
By David Adès. The Israel-Hamas conflict is a war on children.
Decomposition
By Mary McColley. A poet in the West Bank reports on land held in the grip of devastating occupation.
Beneath the Rubble
By Amal El-Sayed. A plea, a prayer, a scream for the thousands buried in rubble by Israel's airstrikes on Gaza.
Planting Trees
By Devorah Levy-Pearlman. I look out at a stampede of pines over the rubble of uprooted olive trees.
To My Children
By Noa Silver. Each evening, now, I stay awake trying to understand the whole of human history.
And That I Should Witness Such Beauty
For Shani Louk, the 23-year-old woman abducted from the Supernova Music Festival and killed by Hamas on October 7.
