ROSALIE MOFFETT
Ode to Casting a Vote
I was gripped
by a thrifty pathology
All posts tagged: politics
ROSALIE MOFFETT
Can Poetry Be a Vehicle for Social Change?
“At a time when economic injustice is at a near all-time high, unions are under attack, and art seems increasingly to have been subordinated to politics, it might do both worlds good to see where they intersect.”
—an essay by Alex Gallo-Brown
My Dear collateral damage
“That language, rescued from the machinery of war, can offer the consolation of being looked upon in relation . . . to whom you are beloved.”
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha on Solmaz Sharif
KATE LEBO A Prayer to Cathy McMorris Rodgers for the Right Reasons to Wed
Work and beware any love that’s jealous / of work
COLLEEN ABEL Help, Lord, for no one is faithful anymore;
The watchers all noticed it, the quiet / changing around them. / Someday they would refuse it.
Interview // Poems Create a Space of Timelessness: A Conversation with Jericho Brown
by Alex Gallo-Brown | Contributing Writer
The Subvocal Zoo: Cody Walker – The Plenitude of the Moment
This episode features Cody Walker and Executive Editor Kevin Craft in conversation, recorded in Los Angeles during the 2016 AWP Conference.
Fiona Sze-Lorrain: “Not Meant as Poems”
Nothing in my song / indicates despair.
RICHARD KENNEY
Civics
Sub-rosa cues on race— / the gutter-tongue that plays / to an ever-baser base— / what’s so hard to see?
Wendy Willis: “Blessed are We Poor”
While most of us can afford to align ourselves with the meek, going about our private lives, rarely—if ever—making life and death decisions, the President does not enjoy those luxuries.