Journalism in Verse
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.
Bleach Cake
By Kurt Cole Eidsvig. Trump's lack of leadership during the pandemic may cost him the election.
Love Notes and Dissent
By Catherine Strayhall. Let our hope be a promise to do better than our histories.
