poetry September 22, 2023 What Is Left Bunkong Tuon Copper Nickel A survivor of the American war in Cambodia, the poet Bunkong Tuon lives with ancestral ghosts and gratitude for what is left.
poetry September 15, 2023 Yellow Stars Elizabeth Zelvin “I will not be invisible,” writes NY poet Elizabeth Zelvin of her Jewish female identity, “I will not be herded/…I do not accept your yellow stars.”
poetry September 1, 2023 Heavy Work Lita Kurth Poetry for Labor Day: The working-class persists, survives, says California poet Lita Kurth; but it sure isn’t easy.
poetry August 18, 2023 What’s in a Name? Carol Kanter Who is Jack Smith? asks the poet Carol Kanter. Cross your fingers. Is he the hero who shows that someone with a fancier name is not above the law? Look it up.
books August 9, 2023 Poetry, Biography, and the Unknowable Hollis Robbins Los Angeles Review of Books These books offer two approaches to the life and work of Wheatley, who is a cornerstone figure of the U.S. and African American literary traditions.
poetry August 11, 2023 Chinese Exclusion Act Gerald Sloan Arkansas poet Gerald Sloan reminds us that the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was no “act” but often lost to history and found again.
poetry August 4, 2023 Poisoned Water Philip C. Kolin Mississippi poet Philip C. Kolin reminds us of the next imminent global disaster—bad water—and in some places it’s already here.
poetry July 28, 2023 Clemency Peter Neil Carroll Cultural Daily There’s more than a little irony in Peter Carroll’s poem about a woman who has been imprisoned for over 20 years being “free to start over.”
poetry July 21, 2023 F Is for Fear Heidi Seaborn Rattle Poet Heidi Seaborn (a distinctive surname) envisions a death at sea by strangulation, though it didn’t quite happen that way.
poetry July 14, 2023 History Repeats Itself W. D. Ehrhart A poet sensitive to injustice, W.D. Ehrhart projects a “broken-hearted world without end.”
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