This Six-Stringed Horizon Boogie
By Jaclyn Youhana Garver. "Eddie Van Halen died today, a planet’s agreed-upon guitar god, which is to say, a holy bard of strings..." …
Larry Kramer at Twilight
By Ed Granger. The prophet doesn’t stride forth like an oracle, but rather flickers in the dimming pages of his rage. …
On the Day Cokie Roberts Died
By Dotty LeMieux. "The news isn’t just something you read off a teleprompter." …
#Elijah
By Yvonne Daley. Civil rights activist and Baltimore congressman Elijah Cummings has died at 68. …
Three Eulogies
By Monaye. An ardent obituary for the late, great American novelist Toni Morrison. …
The Human Condition
By Denise Sedman. An erasure poem to honor the anniversary of Anthony Bourdain's death. …
Harvest
By Devon Balwit. The winning poetry from this week's poetry challenge. …
Saying I Love You in Wookiee
By Kurt Cole Eidsvig. Peter Mayhew, the actor behind the beloved Chewbacca, has died at 74. …
Of Earth Of Merwin
By M. T. Whitington. Reading the late poet W.S. Merwin, the "evangelist of nature." …
Can You Hear the Shape of the Drum?
By Stephen Byrne. W.S. Merwin dies on the same day as the Christchurch mosque shootings. …