p1Memorial to Ed BlandBy Gwendolyn Brooks He grew up being curious And thinking things are various. Nothing was merely deleterious Or spurious...Social CommentariesWar & Conflict
p1Ready to Lose to Salah ad-Din IIBy Edward SalemI sat up in bed with my legs crossed for too long, and when they started prickling and feeling heavy...Social CommentariesWar & Conflict
p1The Dome of the Rock Was on FireBy Edward SalemThe Dome of the Rock was on fire, I thought. I saw people running out, shouting and fighting as smoke...Social CommentariesWar & Conflict
p1MissionBy Edward SalemThe dead Palestinian brother. I have lost each of you, my personal friend and sister and glass of cold...Social CommentariesWar & Conflict
p1Ready to Lose to Salah ad-Din IBy Edward SalemAcross the suffocating blackness, the waveless water and a broad hush in the indecipherable wind, Jordan...Social CommentariesWar & Conflict
The OphanyBy Cyrus Console Rotor wash, or the downward-flowing Air by which our helicopters formed Imprints in the jungle grass beneath ...Social CommentariesPopular CultureRace & EthnicityWar & ConflictHistory & PoliticsReligionFaith & DoubtArts & SciencesSciencesMetersFree VerseTechniquesSymbolistTypes/ModesSeries/Sequence + 8 more
GródekBy Georg TraklAt evening autumn forests drone With deadly weapons, the golden plains And the blue lakes, above which...Social CommentariesWar & ConflictAnxiety & InsecurityBlame
p1In Her Last Phone CallBy Abhijit Sarmahmother hopes to tell me more about tree-root trails, melodies woven out of winds roaring down our ricefields...Social CommentariesWar & ConflictRelationshipsFamily & Ancestors
Speaking AloneBy Tristan Tzarasenseless here’s the man with the crystal contractions with the rumor of sand with a doll’s past tense...NatureAnimalsSocial CommentariesWar & ConflictLivingDeathSorrow & GrievingThe MindMemory & NostalgiaActivitiesTravels & JourneysStanza FormsMixedMetersFree VerseTechniquesImagerySymbolistGriefMelancholy & Despair + 13 more
Can You Describe Your Years in Prison?By Aria AberOver Skype, I try to document my mother’s bald-shaved youth—she has a surplus in truths, and science...Social CommentariesCrime & PunishmentWar & ConflictRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsMythology & FolkloreGreek & Roman MythologyMetersFree VerseTechniquesImageryMetaphorSimile + 6 more
At IthacaBy H.D.Over and back, the long waves crawl and track the sand with foam; night darkens and the sea takes on...LoveDesire & PassionSocial CommentariesWar & ConflictMythology & FolkloreGreek & Roman MythologyTechniquesImagerySimile + 2 more
38By Layli Long SoldierHere, the sentence will be respected. I will compose each sentence with care, by minding what the rules...Social CommentariesMoney & EconomicsRace & EthnicityWar & ConflictHistory & PoliticsLivingSorrow & GrievingRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsMetersFree VerseTypes/ModesElegyAngerGrief + 8 more
p1From “Letters to Ukraine”By Yuri AndrukhovychBut Ukraine is a country of the baroque. Traveling through it is a pleasure for the eye. And that’s why the temptation...Social CommentariesWar & ConflictHistory & Politics
p1From “Листи в Україну”By Yuri AndrukhovychУкраїна ж—це країна бароко. Мандрувати нею—для ока втіха. І тому западає спокуса в око: зруйнувати в...Social CommentariesWar & ConflictHistory & Politics
Border WisdomBy Ahmad Almallahthe world is not as bad as our neighbors made it to be that day— we’ve seen worse days— and how beautiful...Social CommentariesRace & EthnicityWar & ConflictHistory & PoliticsLivingLife ChoicesActivitiesTravels & Journeys
Tall Lyric for Palestine (Or, The Harder Thinking)By Rickey Laurentiis Because I should’ve wrote this years ago, I’m crying. So what my slow failure pass the years Make me...Social CommentariesClassRace & EthnicityWar & ConflictHistory & PoliticsLivingDeathTechniquesEpigraphTypes/ModesProse Poem + 4 more
I WANT SKYBy BazeedIn the hiding hour of autophagy ghosts hang out all day and talk to us. An archival haunting demanding...Social CommentariesRace & EthnicityWar & ConflictHistory & PoliticsReligionFaith & DoubtIslamLivingDeathRelationshipsFriends & EnemiesVerse FormsTechniquesAllusion + 7 more
p1From the SkyBy Sara Abou RashedWhen I die, bury me in the sky— no one is fighting over it. Children are playing soccer with empty bomb...Social CommentariesWar & ConflictHistory & PoliticsReligionIslamLivingDeathSorrow & GrievingStanza FormsTercetMetersFree VerseTechniquesAnaphoraImageryGrief + 9 more
from “Lamentation”By Rachel Tzvia Back(1) In worded a world how broken from beginning: sunburst and blossoms all subterfuges of creation ruses...LoveHeartache & LossSocial CommentariesWar & ConflictHistory & Politics
Summer (’16)By Rachel Tzvia Back1 The cyclamens have a hard time breathing in July. The sun ravages them and earth is too dry. Still...NatureSummerSocial CommentariesWar & ConflictLivingDeathSorrow & GrievingStanza FormsCoupletTechniquesMetaphorTypes/ModesElegySeries/SequenceGrief + 8 more