Hearts & Bones
Today, I am a placeholder for a vote that hasn't yet been cast.
8 Years of Journalism in Verse
Patriotism
A jubilant celebration and a fresh wound, all at once.
Heartsick, But Singing
Today, America needs us more than ever.
I Cannot Live Without You
By Leonore Hildebrandt. An Inaugural ode to these United States of America, as she stands today.
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.'"
A RipRap Along the Rivers
By Jane Yolen. D.C.'s historic Black headstones were dumped in a faraway river. But injustice doesn't wash away that easily.
The Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC
By Bruce Robinson. Can this historic pool act as a mirror?
Torch the Empty Fields
By Mary Jo LoBello Jerome. Sometimes we should let the year burn. Sometimes it's burned us already.
Praise Odes (Three Poems)
By Jeff Schiff. Odes to the culture of conspiracy, tribalism, and hatred that propelled the modern American Trump voter.
