The Day After Trump Won the Second Time
In the dust of political defeat, something else rises: tenderness.
Journalism in Verse
Dry Eyes
Everything has changed since then, and nothing has.
Disinherited: A Lament
We once wore the white viburnum of suffragists. And now?
The Compass of Compassion
By Yvonne Daley. A manifesto in the hopes for a better year than this one's been.
Abe’s Awful Dream
By Matthew Murrey. The Republican party has become unrecognizable to its former self.
Ghazal for Jack Aboud Shabi
By Joumana Altallal. During the Iraq War, now in its 15th year, a psychiatric hospital was looted, its patients left to wander
Mein Drumpf: Enemy of the People
By Michele Madigan Somerville. A found poem that analyzes Trump's media philosophy with jarring insight.
Open Season
By Heidi Seaborn. Once a target of the Unabomber, a poet reflects on the bombs mailed to Democratic leaders this week.
The Crooked Way
By Mark Williams. “Do you think we’ll get out of here?” Mitch asks as we struggle toward the darkening plateau
