Journalism in Verse
May the New Year Be Good
By Melissa Rendlen. Yearning for a better world in this global time of renewal.
Double Jeopardy
By Success Akpojotor. A tale of outlaws and jailers in the aftermath of CDC's banned words.
Terror Nullius
By MaryBeth Gundrum. In Australia, mapping massacres of Aborigines kickstarts a racial reckoning.
Barbie Wedding [AUDIO]
By Star LaBranche. Child's play, for the year that 725 children lost their lives to gun violence.
Man Beats Up ATM for Giving Him Too Much Cash [AUDIO]
By Martin Ott. In a fitting final symbol for 2017, a man beats up an ATM for giving him too much cash.
A Forbidden Sestina
By David Sklar. Censored words in the US government's scientific bureaucracy inspires poetic analysis.
Santa as a Young Viking
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright. Father Christmas has some advice for the new year.
Clearing the Air
By Sebastian Summers. A veteran of Evangelical Christianity meditates on faith and fire in the Gaza Strip.
