A Syrian Epic
San Francisco Chronicle
“A Syrian Epic,” by San Francisco poet Muhammad Umar J. Salimi, tells of what is lost and what can never be lost.
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Frequently Asked Questions: #7
Split this Rock
The award-winning poet Camille T. Dungy captures a specific, amazing moment when a stranger suddenly realizes the price of racism.
poetry
Gone . . .
California poet Lee Rossi explores the impact of toppling old heroes, their myths, their monuments, their wrongs.
poetry
Operating on the Body Politic
Dispatches from the Poetry Wars
New York poet Philip Fried makes a diagnosis of brain damage to explain the body politic of a certain politician with orange hair.
poetry
Paper Crowns
American Poetry Review
“All blindness and much worse,” writes Illinois poet Joanne Diaz of the invisibility of Black life to oblivious white people.
poetry
The Party of Pedophiles and Pussy Grabbers
The Grand Old Party, the poet Anthony Squiers reports, “it never really was about morality.” Go know.
poetry
American Arithmetic
Verse Daily
“I am doing my best to not become a museum,” writes Native American poet Natalie Diaz of complexities of preserving her identity as a person among people.
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The Embarrassment of Being in the World
What Nature: Poems
Massachusetts poet Kathy Nilsson exposes feelings of alienation in the current state of the world: “I don’t recall being American, or even here.”
books
The Right Poetry Collection For Right Now
Los Angeles Times
This poet's sixth collection offers aims helping us reflect on our difficult times. Hayes, an African American poet, wrote this new collection during the first 200 days of the Trump administration.
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Aftermath
Green Mountains Review
“Our hearts go out/ but only as the yo-yo might,” writes Georgia poet Chad Davidson of the shock world we mostly live in.
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