Portside

Mississippi poet Philip C. Kolin reminds us of the next imminent global disaster—bad water—and in some places it’s already here.

There’s more than a little irony in Peter Carroll’s poem about a woman who has been imprisoned for over 20 years being “free to start over.”

Poet Heidi Seaborn (a distinctive surname) envisions a death at sea by strangulation, though it didn’t quite happen that way.

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.