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.
There is a Border No Skin Can Cross
By Barry Wallenstein. Imagining a border town with the name of Fearless.
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.
Flying Above, America Glides Over Avenues of Contempt Belonging to the Generations Before Us
By Ariana D. Den Bleyker. "She’s incapable of chanting ohm, screaming ouch in the deepening obscure night."
Masters of the Universe
By Alejandro Escudé. The winning poem from our poetry challenge sees hero archetypes fractured on the screen.
