U.S. - Poets Reading The News

By Howard Debs. Calculating the route that the suspected killer of Heather Heyer took on his way to Charlottesville's white supremacist rally.

By Nico Amador. After Charlottesville, love for country is hard to swallow.

By Jenna Spagnolo. The hoods are off. The rest is familiar.

By Kurt Cole Eidsvig. The story of 8 overdoses in a 48-hour period could come from almost any town in the U.S.

By Marcelius Braxton. A neo-Nazi with explosives is set free by a Florida judge who rules he is not a threat.

By Lauren Camp. "We sit on the porch as tuneless cars repeat / their litany in distant atmosphere."

By Joy Harjo. A poetics of hope in dark times.

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