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.
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.
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."
