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?
President’s 4th
By Michel Krug. In Trump's capital, Independence Day brings out tanks, Blue Angels, thousands of soldiers, Jumbotrons and weak reasoning.
Reparations
By Sandra Fees. Black Americans suffer a hushed biography of consequences. Reparations aim to fix that.
The Candidates I Want
By Tyler Friend. In the Democratic primary, there is a candidate for every mood.
Mr. Magoo Goes to the Trump Rally
By Carol Flake Chapman. The winner of our weekly poetry challenge takes satire to Disneyworld proportions.
Saved, 3 Baby Rabits
By Mark Williams. On a president who takes credit for resolving crises of his own invention.
It’s Currently Summer Here Where We Boil Our History
By Suzanne Swanson. "You’d like it here where the repetition of lies has a rhythm verging on lullaby."
Pantoum of the American Citizen
By Alejandro Escudé. Don McGahn testified that Trump tried to get Mueller fired. Now he's following Trump's order to resist a House
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.
