What She’s Been Saying All Along
By Devon Balwit. Tech that helps paralyzed people write is the focus of this winning entry from our poetry challenge.
Journalism in Verse
Whose Father?
By Jane Yolen. This Founding Father mural is stoking national controversy. Whose
To the Blond Jester
By Adam Davis. As Brexit gets brutal, so does Boris Johnson's legacy.
The Span of a Year
By Taylor Balfour. The opioid epidemic claims over 130 lives everyday. Here is the grief the numbers can't show.
Incantation Against Burning Amazon Rainforests
By Stephen Scott Whitaker. "Open land, open air, open earth, swing open all doors. Oil hinges with oil syllables, Bolsonaro. Bolosonaro."
WE THE HOMOSEXUALS
By Robin Gow. Remembering the 1969 Stonewall Riots on its 50 year anniversary.
Death by the Numbers
By Mary Turck. The winning poem of our weekly challenge does the math on migrant child death at the U.S. border.
40 Acres and a Tool
By Mernine Ameris. The winning poem from our weekly challenge is for Harriet Tubman.
Ghosts in the Machine
By Chandra Steele. The winning poem from our weekly challenge delves into facial recognition technology.
Masters of the Universe
By Alejandro Escudé. The winning poem from our poetry challenge sees hero archetypes fractured on the screen.
A Day Made of Atoms Like Ours
By Jed Myers. The winning poem from our poetry challenge imagines what lies on the other side of our particular darkness.
