“Women afraid of dying while / they are trying to find their life.” Poetry of Abortion by Alissa Quart
Co-published with Literary Hub. Katha Pollitt introduces “Clinic,” a documentary poem by Alissa Quart.
The Poetry of Labor: On Rodrigo Toscano and the Art of Work
Co-published with Literary Hub. Rodrigo Toscano's poetry engages with the world of work, including its impasses and oppressions.
Never-Ending Sentences
Co-published with The Believer. A striking series of documentary poems about ex-offenders and their struggle to find housing after prison in Cleveland, Ohio.
Homeless in a Pandemic: The Housing Poetry of Jennifer Fitzgerald
Co-published with Literary Hub. Poet Jen Fitzgerald chronicles her struggle with housing insecurity in a series of stunning fact-based poems and personal images.
Chinatown Under Threat
Co-published with Believer Magazine. Manhattan’s Chinatown is a symbol of inequality, and of how one American metropolis is in truth two cities.
True Poetry
Co-published with Poetry Magazine. Our executive director Alissa Quart writes on why (and how) we should try more inventive, non-standard ways of presenting the truth, like …
Let’s Push the Language of Journalism Past Its Limits
Co-published with Columbia Journalism Review. If we are going to use the written word, we need to be more imaginative about the modes we are using.
A Fierce Desire to Stay: Looking at West Virginia Through Its People’s Eyes
Co-published with The Guardian. Photographer Matt Eich and poet Doug Van Gundy went to Webster county, West Virginia, to find a place where people still celebrate …
‘[Somewhere in Los Angeles] This Poem Is Needed’
Co-curated with Bill Moyers & Company. Poetry provides the constant opportunity to take a situation and cast it in a different light.
‘Suicide Parade’
Co-curated with Bill Moyers & Company. Let’s take a closer look at the most feared weapon used by the US in the Korean War.
‘What Resembles The Grave But Isn’t’
Co-curated with Bill Moyers & Company. A poem about survival from Kansas City-based poet and essayist Anne Boyer.
‘General James Bethune and John Bethune Introduce Blind Tom’
Co-curated with Bill Moyers & Company. Tyehimba Jess has just won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry!