On the hundredth birthday of Allen Ginsberg, poet William Berkowitz reminds us that before there was the poet who wrote HOWL, there was his father, Louis Ginsberg, the poet who wrote the poet who wrote HOWL.
As a movement builder, spokesperson, and candidate for the presidency, Jesse Jackson’s accomplishments were massive. He was one of the towering figures of American progressive politics in his era — or any era.
The writer Ta-Nehisi Coates was harshly critical of my response to Charlie Kirk’s assassination. In an article in Vanity Fair, he suggested I was whitewashing Kirk’s legacy, comparing it to the whitewashing of the Southern cause after the Civil War.
Poet Florence Weinberger contemplates what her husband, an Auschwitz survivor, left behind.
Poet Marie Howe shows us the frightening consequences of "what we did to the earth."
As we approach Trump's second inauguration, poet Alison Luterman asks if the patient will survive? The patient is us, the American people.
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