poem

In this poem, Allison Joseph reveals the truth about public transportation: it’s public.

A poem in the ghazal form that elegizes Emmett Till, an African American boy who was murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after reportedly whistling at a white woman.

This is a second poem by Elizabeth Hoover that uses the photography of Saul Leiter as a source for meditative dialogue on the nature of an image.

This poem by Elizabeth Hoover uses the photography of Saul Leiter as a source for a meditative dialogue on the nature of an image.

I will make him with red hair and a fiery tongue I will give him a country and a century a limp and strong hands I will take his wife but give him a daughter lovely enough to break his heart and will send him across the sea where he will die an old man […]

A poem by Pamela Johnson Parker.

A poem by Maureen McQuerry

A poem by Courtney Druz.

A poem by Liz Dolan explores children’s responses to death.