Journalism in Verse
Dr. Richter’s Obituary
By Pesach Rotem. A poet reads the obituary of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
The Paris Accord
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright. On his birthday, a poetic farewell to the late John Ashbery.
Ringing Out
By Alexandra Donovan. A shooting at the offices of the Capital Gazette left five dead, including journalist Wendi Winters.
A Purple Flower Among The Grazing Horses
By Stephen Byrne. In her final moments of safety, Asifa Bano was a little girl grazing her horses in a Kashmir meadow.
As a Mother
By Stephen Byrne. Claudia Gómez González hoped for an education. She was killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Texas instead.
Parts Unknown
By Clare Welsh. Anthony Bourdain, dead at 61, recognized the misfits working behind the counter.
The Left Hand of Darkness
By Devon Balwit. Ursula K. Le Guin, the acclaimed fantasy fiction author, has died at 88.
Remembering Our Life Together as a Cigarette after the Cranberries Show
By J. Todd Hawkins. Dolores O’Riordan, singer of The Cranberries, has died at age 46.
