Election Day, 1884
The great American Bard Walt Whitman (1819-1892) celebrates what all citizens must do next Tuesday: VOTE!!
poetry
Ceremony
Poetry Northwest
In the morbid world of coronavirus, Colorado-based poet Camille T. Dungy finds spontaneous happiness in a familiar song and dance.
poetry
The Five Horses of Doctor Ramón Emeterio Betances
Poem-a-Day
Martín Espada gives an eloquent elegy to Dr. Ramón Emeterio Betances, a Puerto Rican abolitionist and revolutionary who addressed issues of pandemic and racial oppression.
poetry
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Bana al-Abed
California poet Mary Bailey captures the voice of a Syrian girl from Aleppo who, with assistance from her English-speaking mother, sent messages through Twitter documenting the siege of the city.
'Running For Your Life': A Community Poem For Ahmaud Arbery
NPR
The art that comes from hurt and pain is compelling and formidable. We received over 1,000 entries — an emotional outpouring of poems and reflections what it means to be black and safe in America today.
books
Turning and Turning: Jericho Brown’s The Tradition
The Rumpus
Jericho Brown is the 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry for his collection, The Tradition. Here is a review of that volume.
poetry
On the Dry Sea of Sonora
Chiron Review
Arizona-based poet Lollie Butler’s poetry captures the horrors of refugees crossing the Sonora desert.
poetry
Quarantine
“Even Andrew Cuomo finds time to call his mother,” explains Oregon poet Christine Hamm, addressing the emotional impact of the long quarantine.
poetry
Goliath
Mondoweiss
The Paris-based poet Judith Mahoney Pasternak puts the story of David & Goliath into a contemporary un-Biblical perspective.
poetry
Spring
Rattle
California poet Jessica Cohn touches the early days of shelter-in-place “when hope was/a shell game.”
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