Death of a Lake By Thriveni Mysore. Recognizing "home" by a lake so polluted it regularly bursts into flames. An elegy for India's Bellandur Lake. Read More
Selections from Haiku Hotline: “The Sea” [AUDIO] Poets Reading the News collaborated with the podcast Interesting People Reading Poetry to curate these great, short poems about the sea. Read More
Harrowing By Caitlin Gildrien. Almost 40 percent of Rohingya villages in Myanmar are now empty. Read More
Pulse Music By Howie Good. Notes on the reverberations of Mexico City's devastating earthquake. Read More
Oh, Let It Be an Arms Race By M. F. Simone Roberts. A poet reports on the escalating nuclear crisis. Read More
Have You Seen My Mother? By Success Akpojotor. A history of Nigeria from precolonial times to the present. Read More
The Strange Pattern of Birds By Stephen Byrne. Based on chilling testimonies from kidnapped Chibok girls. More than 100 remain missing. Read More
Colours from Chibok By Success Akpojotor. "Green and blue earth unite and sing/ Bring back our girls, with placards to the pitch darkness" Read More
The Dying Light By Devon Balwit. Incredibly, dolphins help people fish in Myanmar. Are their days numbered? Read More
Erase the Sun By Howie Good. Global disruptions in our sense of peace and safety converge in one metropolis, online. Read More