Blue Innocents
"That you died no one would doubt."
8 Years of Journalism in Verse
An American Jew Speaks With a Ceaseless Witness
Gaza is not yours to dream.
The Same Sky Stretches Above All of Our Heads
By Shehrbano Naqvi. A portrait of a family in Gaza.
Homage to Catalonia
By Pesach Rotem. Catalonia declared independence but something was missing.
Fire and Fury
By Alejandro Escudé. "There's nothing unaccounted for, especially when it comes to power and resistance".
Oya Awakened
By Geoffrey Philp. "..The pressure dropped and Irma’s path shifted toward the Keys, lifting dust she’d carried from the Sahara..."
La Brigada Migrante
By Abigail Carl-Klassen. Central American migrants delay their journey to join Mexican earthquake relief.
Death of a Lake
By Thriveni Mysore. Recognizing "home" by a lake so polluted it regularly bursts into flames. An elegy for India's Bellandur Lake.
Selections from Haiku Hotline: “The Sea” [AUDIO]
Poets Reading the News collaborated with the podcast Interesting People Reading Poetry to curate these great, short poems about the sea.
Pulse Music
By Howie Good. Notes on the reverberations of Mexico City's devastating earthquake.
Oh, Let It Be an Arms Race
By M. F. Simone Roberts. A poet reports on the escalating nuclear crisis.
