Disabled, After Trump Wins
For West Virginia's most vulnerable, the Trump win is poised to take more than it gives.
8 Years of Journalism in Verse
May Day, May Day
Bracing for an emergency landing into reality.
The DC Love Story of Honor and Kash
On snakes and the girls who love them.
A Forbidden Sestina
By David Sklar. Censored words in the US government's scientific bureaucracy inspires poetic analysis.
Doubting Thomas Volunteers at an Alabama Senate Poll
By Crystal Stone. Imagine if Doubting Thomas, Jesus' Apostle, were to witness the campaign of Roy Moore.
The Prophet and the Tax Bill
By Tim Duffy. The Bible says that which has been stolen must be returned.
Chag Sameach, Y’all
By Jan Steckel. A poet celebrates a Hanukkah miracle as black women defeat Roy Moore in Alabama.
Origin of Words
By Amy Shaw. Trump's Center for Disease Control has banned seven words, including fetus, transgender, and diversity.
Thieved Native Ancestral Land: A Sleight Change of Hands
By J.L. Pugh. Should a legacy be retreat at gunpoint, much less a whiteman's ballpoint pen?
The Trauma of Working People
By Ernest Gordon Taulbee. A satirical response to the GOP tax bill, which is expected to harm middle-class and working-class America.
Methylation Without Representation
By Joseph M. Gerace. On Republicans' tax plan to enrich the one percent, for an oligarchy with Greco-Democratic roots.
General Kelly Offers a Compromise
By Tim Duffy. Imagining John Kelly at the helm during the American Civil War.
Schooling John Kelly: A Brief History of “Civil” Compromise
By Abigail Carl-Klassen. What would it really have meant to "compromise" during America's Civil War?
