2nd Grader Killed by Stray Bullet
By Marc A. Drexlerchildren in
certain neighborhoods
should know better than to
sit by a window
Calling poets to a greater role in public life and fostering a national network of socially engaged poets.
By Marc A. Drexlerchildren in
certain neighborhoods
should know better than to
sit by a window
By Tarfia FaizullahIn Grandmother's house,
we are each a room that
must remain locked. Inside
By Antoinette BrimLet the moon untangle itself
from the clothesline, as coming daylight
diminishes its lamp to memory.
By Jose PaduaAll the out of business auto body shops
on this slow highway, all the abandoned
buildings with peeling paint, the vacant
By Kathleen HellenI sit in the front row of
bleachers -- cheap seats for greater grief.
My son
By Judith ArcanaYou read the tiny cardboard book before
you scratch the strip under Augie's New Pizza
on the back of MIA:We still don't know
By Elliott batTzedekAcross a small suburban lawn
a very large man is riding
a very large tractor mower
By Marie-Elizabeth MaliPulling out of Union Square station, the subway
sounds the first three notes of There's a place for us,
somewhere a place for us. A woman sits on me, shoves
By Sami Mirandawe is not the singular
dotted i, black figure against
a white background.