This Poem Isn’t a Dirge [AUDIO]
By Rodney Wilder. Positive environmental news comes from an unlikely place.
Journalism in Verse
Oya Awakened
By Geoffrey Philp. "..The pressure dropped and Irma’s path shifted toward the Keys, lifting dust she’d carried from the Sahara..."
La Brigada Migrante
By Abigail Carl-Klassen. Central American migrants delay their journey to join Mexican earthquake relief.
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.
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.
Bet the Blue Line [AUDIO]
By Phillip T. Stephens. Protests in St. Louis after ex-cop is acquitted for murder of Anthony Lamar Smith.
Cell Phones Lifted in a Public Square
By Ned Balbo. In an age of relentless sharing, what power does digital activism really hold?
Leaving Houston
By J. Todd Hawkins. A poet reports on fleeing Houston during Hurricane Harvey.
