Jeanne Murray Walker

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Jeanne Murray Walker’s poem regrets how political decisions negatively affect the environment.

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M. Leary

Brief Guide to British Crime Drama

All recent roads in crime drama lead to Forbrydelsen, the Danish series known to American audiences by its AMC then Netflix remake The Killing. For many, The Killing introduced a new vibe or set of possibilities for telling stories about crime that British TV critics had labeled Scandinavian or Nordic noir after shows like Wallander and The Bridge made their way across […]

Rickey Laurentiis

Ghazal for Emmett Till

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.