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.
I’m Black and Jewish. I Can’t Let a Social Struggle Define Me.
Co-published with The Forward. I no longer let my physical attributes define me. But recent anti-Semitic comments by a handful of Black celebrities have me again exploring …
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.
The Problem of Money and Access at AWP
Co-published with Literary Hub. Is it possible to attend AWP if you’re poor? Alison Stine writes about the haves and have-nots of America's biggest writers' conference.
We Need More Poetry in Politics
Co-published with The New York Times. Political rhetoric has gotten dull and empathy fatigue has set in. A more creative communication approach can combat that.
Let’s Push the Language of Journalism Past Its Limits
Co-published with Columbia Journalism Review. When words and traditional genres fail us, what other techniques might journalists deploy to break through the thicket of bigoted remarks …
‘[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!
‘Spring Breaks’
Co-curated with Bill Moyers & Company One of the strengths of poetry is that it’s a different kind of language…it can cut directly to meaning making …