Journalism in Verse
I Spoke to Haywood’s Grandma
By Lea Page. "Instead of scripted lines, I say, 'If we work together, I think we can do this.'"
A RipRap Along the Rivers
By Jane Yolen. D.C.'s historic Black headstones were dumped in a faraway river. But injustice doesn't wash away that easily.
The Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC
By Bruce Robinson. Can this historic pool act as a mirror?
Torch the Empty Fields
By Mary Jo LoBello Jerome. Sometimes we should let the year burn. Sometimes it's burned us already.
Praise Odes (Three Poems)
By Jeff Schiff. Odes to the culture of conspiracy, tribalism, and hatred that propelled the modern American Trump voter.
Love Notes and Dissent
By Catherine Strayhall. Let our hope be a promise to do better than our histories.
Dear Virginia
By Kim Harvey. Monuments to Robert E. Lee are at the epicenter of Black Lives Matter protests in Virginia.