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.
Through Song? Leaflets Falling From the Sky?
By Moira Roth. "How will these children, when they grow up, / Hear news about the world?"
Locker Room
Who haunts the ghost? Who walks the dog? Who mocks the turtle? Who listens to a log? Live by the penis,
After Attica: Found Poems on Prison Labor
Section 1 Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except for a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,
How Dry Are His Lips That Water Floods Him in Nightmares
By Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes. "The desert devours everything, even the expectation that it devours everything."
Hung Lyres for Mohamedou Ould Slahi [AUDIO]
By Philip Metres. A poem for the Guantanamo detainee who wrote a book about his torture, Mohamedou Ould Slahi.
Woman Mourning Son [AUDIO]
By Philip Metres. A woman in Iraq mourns her son, caught in the crosshairs of an F-16.
No Man Left Behind (Minutes Without A Veteran Suicide: 65)
By Abigail Carl-Klassen. The impacts of war go deep, to a battleground of the mind.
I always came to this café, then run by artists and anarchists, to read The New York Times
By Moira Roth. Reading the Times, ruminating on a lifetime of changing history.
