How to Survive Patriotism in 2019 [AUDIO]
By Abby E. Murray. In the wake of Trump's July celebrations, words on a country rendered bereft of its own grief.
Journalism in Verse
Rio Grande Elegy
By Jasmine Marshall Armstrong. A father and infant daughter drowned crossing the Rio Grande. The photo of their bodies goes viral.
It’s Currently Summer Here Where We Boil Our History
By Suzanne Swanson. "You’d like it here where the repetition of lies has a rhythm verging on lullaby."
There is a Border No Skin Can Cross
By Barry Wallenstein. Imagining a border town with the name of Fearless.
Death by the Numbers
By Mary Turck. The winning poem of our weekly challenge does the math on migrant child death at the U.S. border.
What They Don’t Say About Border Violence
By Abigail Carl-Klassen. "They cry 'border violence,' even though they brought the violence to us."
A January Thursday in El Valle
By Katherine Hoerth. "This is the home I know, the Rio Grande Valley, the place the president calls dangerous..."
