2018 - Poets Reading The News

My Best Friend Was Murdered Again

By Amy Aves Challenger. Ten years after his best friend's death by the NYPD, Saheed Vassell was fatally killed by Brooklyn police.

Detention Highway Sweetness

By C.C. Fuller. Families caught along a divisive border try to survive America.

Self-Sleeping Car Turns Out The Lights

By Jill Talbot. What's the role of poetry in the dystopian tech landscape?

Bite Off Only the Banal

By Kay Thompson Fields. When the week's breaking news is a year-old Beyonce bite, reality feels attention-starved.

When You Let Him in the Room

By J. Todd Hawkins. Country music is reckoning with its own #MeToo moment.

Woozy in the Pool at Mar-a-Lago at 7 A.M.

By Jackie Craven. Charges of extramarital affairs from ex-Playmates and adult actresses are plaguing Trump's presidency.

I Took My Daughter to the Protest

By Paul Corrigan. A feminist dad, his daughter, and the March for Our Lives.

By the Time They Opened You Up, It Was Everywhere

By Devon Balwit. Is the malignant tumor of Facebook too widespread to heal?

Serve

By Alia Hussain Vancrown. A legal brief from a rape case tried in the U.S. Court of Apathy.

stopbullying.gov: A Found Poem

By Jacqueline Jules. A study of contrasts after Trump's latest round of insults in Pennsylvania.

2018 - Page 17

My Best Friend Was Murdered Again

Detention Highway Sweetness

Self-Sleeping Car Turns Out The Lights

Bite Off Only the Banal

When You Let Him in the Room

Woozy in the Pool at Mar-a-Lago at 7 A.M.

I Took My Daughter to the Protest

Serve

stopbullying.gov: A Found Poem

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