Portside

In Geneffa Jahan's poem "Waiting" the speaker awaits her death as if it were an abusive lover.

Poet Joanne Durham reflects on an uniquely American challenge of parenting.

Anishinaabe poet Kimberly Blaeser affirms her fealty to tradition as well as to the resistance to colonizers at the core of indigenous communities.

Poet Jean Chacona offers a satirical view of the hucksterism at the heart of the new administration.

As we approach Trump's second inauguration, poet Alison Luterman asks if the patient will survive? The patient is us, the American people.

Minnesota poet Erik Tschekunow seeks to amplify the voices of the incarcerated and the previously incarcerated.

Poet Beau Beausoleil contemplates the horrors which await the American public as a result of the recent election.

California poet Nels Goñi Christianson honors the women who made him the man he is, their often undervalued care and strength.

Poet Weijia Pan offers a glimpse of the contradictions in a “classless” society.

California poet Charlotte Muse digs into the open grave which is Gaza.