A Shock of Sky
A poem by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz that describes a non-eyewitness response to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
A poem by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz that describes a non-eyewitness response to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
Cate Whetzel reviews Katie Ford’s “Colosseum,” a book of poems that “record [the] anxiety, trauma, and stunned sense of coping” of “the loss of New Orleans” and “the destruction and devastation of the classical world.”
A poem by Brian G. Phipps that dwells between waking and sleeping, life and death.
A poem by Christina Cook meditates on death and rebirth during wartime.
A poem by Jesseca Cornelson.
A poem about seeking inner peace amid the cacophony of public discourse.
A poem about seeking inner peace amid the cacophony of public discourse.
In this spoken-word poem, Matthew Brouwer riffs on his ideal presidential candidate, a leader who knows the blues.
In this poem, Marjorie Maddox considers the potential for salvation in catastrophe when we open our eyes to change.