Balance
In San Francisco, manifest destiny meets Land's End.
Journalism in Verse
Donald Trump Meditating on Love
From the trenches of his trade war, it's the President as you've
The Guillotine
A report from the scaffold, as Trump moves to purge the Justice
Stay Barricaded in Place [BREAKING]
By Larry Thacker. A script for the breaking news that a Florida high school shooting has left 17 dead on Valentine's Day.
The First Jewish President
By Pesach Rotem. Deductive reasoning leads a poet to a surprising conclusion.
At Marshall County High School
By Alejandro Escudé. A high school teacher and father sketches his plan for the unbearable: a school shooting.
Safe Havens
By Catherine Rockwood. "'I want to turn this in,' he said, setting down one crosshatched grenade..."
Everyone Is Terrified for Their Kids
By Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach. The banality of terror in an American home, after another school shooting.
Lost Souls
By Megan Merchant. The nation, numbed by mass shootings, barely flinches about this week's gunfire at a Kentucky high school.
Forewarned on January 13, 2018
By Sharon Mishler Fox. Perhaps, how a famous poet would react to a missile strike in Hawaii.
This Is Not A Drill
By Carol Alena Aronoff. "I woke up this morning with twelve minutes to live."
And The Devil Laughs [AUDIO]
By Elya Braden. The political and environmental world ablaze, on the anniversary of the Women's March.
