Portside

The southern California poet Gail Wronsky writes with pride (and pleasure and dignity) about her child who no longer passes as a binary daughter.

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach wrote this poem in response to the presidential executive order changing the status of “Jew” from a religion or ethnicity to a nationality.

Hugh Martin’s poetry captures the interior agonies of US soldiers at war in Iraq.

The identity of an African American woman Callie, who was William Faulkner’s maid, is seen from different perspectives in Malcolm Tariq’s poem.

The Canadian poet Lynne Knight adds a feminist/ecological turn to Copernicus’s classical paradigm shift about the earth circling the sun.

California poet Buff Whitman-Bradley reminds us that some wars never end.

The great exiled Persian poet Majid Naficy exposes the continuing pain of Iranian people.

The poet MEH describes a classroom moment, someone hijacking “communal grief,” and a good teacher’s response.

With tongue in cheek, Kim Roberts explores the patriarchal origins of our Thanksgiving holiday.

The poet Clint Smith, born and raised in New Orleans, writes from a wistful perspective of the city “kept from becoming.”