“They Have Come for the Poets”
By Jed Myers. Myanmar's military dictatorship fears the writers' power.
8 Years of Journalism in Verse
At the Top of the Hill, Unnamed Graves of Workers They Didn’t Bother to Carry Down
By Stephanie Niu. A headstone is only a home for a name.
Using “Minimum Force”
By Ananya Kumar-Banerjee. In Delhi, students protesting India's new citizenship law are
50 Days and Counting
By Nilanjana Bhowmick. In August, India stripped Kashmir's autonomy, cutting off internet amidst mass arrests. Will the UN intervene?
Clearing the Air
By Kathy Gibbons. Hiroshima marked the 74th anniversary of its nuclear bombing this summer, an event still nearly impossible to imagine.
Expectation
By Jennifer Davis Michael. It's been 30 years since the Tiananmen Square protests changed China as we know it.
Manifesto of the Revolutionary League of Lonely Souls
By J. Todd Hawkins. In Japan on Valentine's Day, protesters resist romance capitalism.
Nuclear Love
By Jessamine Price. A poet living in South Korea explores the specter of human loss as nuclear threats intensify.
Melania in China
By Pesach Rotem. In which Melania contemplates her life with Donald on top of a very hard wall.
As I Step Over a Puddle in the Middle of Autumn, I Think of a Modern Japanese President
By Paul Bone. Trump's visit to Japan, a koi pond, and the universal practice of poetic license.
