U.S. - Poets Reading The News

While Everything Falls Apart, Imagine How You’ll Teach Your Son About Guns

By Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach. A son asks his mother to sing his favorite song, “Bang, bang"— the sound of gunshots.

Morpheus in West Virginia

By Marc Alan Di Martino. The American family earning billions from the opioid crisis it helped to invent.

General Kelly Offers a Compromise

By Tim Duffy. Imagining John Kelly at the helm during the American Civil War.

Schooling John Kelly: A Brief History of “Civil” Compromise

By Abigail Carl-Klassen. What would it really have meant to "compromise" during America's Civil War?

The Red and the Black

By Sean J. Mahoney. Meditations on the economic infrastructure of America's opioid crisis.

Disinformation

By Yvonne Daley. A poem from a citizen of an untrustworthy government.

Keeping Count

By Nan Ottenritter. Poetry on self-care in the aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting.

Backstory

By Larry Thacker. Searching for the backstory of a mass shooter and the many saying nothing.

Nine Per Second

By Albert Haley. A poet's plea after the gun massacre in Las Vegas, Nevada.

For the Dreamers

By Jeff Newberry. An investigation into unstable American narratives.

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While Everything Falls Apart, Imagine How You’ll Teach Your Son About Guns

Morpheus in West Virginia

General Kelly Offers a Compromise

Schooling John Kelly: A Brief History of “Civil” Compromise

The Red and the Black

Disinformation

Keeping Count

Backstory

Nine Per Second

For the Dreamers

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