To Witness Injustice
"I circle the 20th of January on my calendar, the date when northern constellations will be sent south..."
Journalism in Verse
The Day After Trump Won the Second Time
In the dust of political defeat, something else rises: tenderness.
Dry Eyes
Everything has changed since then, and nothing has.
I Buy a Star Projector to Get Me Through the Election
It wasn’t easy. It isn’t now. It won’t be, ever.
Forty-Two Days Until the Election
In the lead-up to the vote, omens and anxieties are hard to tell apart.
I Spoke to Haywood’s Grandma
By Lea Page. "Instead of scripted lines, I say, 'If we work together, I think we can do this.'"
Praise Odes (Three Poems)
By Jeff Schiff. Odes to the culture of conspiracy, tribalism, and hatred that propelled the modern American Trump voter.
Love Notes and Dissent
By Catherine Strayhall. Let our hope be a promise to do better than our histories.
Voting Demographics in 2020 A.D.
By Kate Burnham. "There are curses older than man that we have been tasked to break."
Tales From Andersen
By Miriam C. Jacobs. A found poem from Hans Christian Andersen fairytales for the Trump voters enticed by an empty promise.
