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A poet sensitive to injustice, W.D. Ehrhart projects a “broken-hearted world without end.”

“I just want to teach science,” says New Hampshire poet Christopher Clauss, but his responsibilities also range from the absurd to the dangerous.

Three years after the murder of George Floyd on March 25 2020, San Francisco poet Beau Beausoleil offers a limited portfolio of 20 poems as homage and legacy.

What really do we mean by the “popular vote”? The poet Star Black sees the consequences of misunderstanding.

California poet Lee Rossi knows what’s wrong with America—but who will listen?

The so-called “arc of history,” says poet Kenneth Pobo, does not “bend toward justice,” and he tells us why!

Lavinia Kumar’s poetry protests the government’s repression of safe medical abortion.

Three years after the murder of George Floyd on March 25 2020, San Francisco poet Beau Beausoleil offers a limited portfolio of 20 poems as homage and legacy. (More will follow in June.)

Approaching the 3rd anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, the crisis of race relations remains contested ground, even in liberal states like Minnesota.

Not a robot, suggests poet Lisa Allen Ortiz. Prove it and she deftly does.