Category: Poetry
GHAZAL FOR A TALL BOY FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE
The reporters called and asked me: Did you know him? / I was his teacher, I said many times that day. Yes, I knew him.
Poetry by Martín Espada
for Jim Foley, journalist executed on video by ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham), August 19, 2014
BULLETPROOF VEST
We’re the only ones we / race against, we think. We speak / in tongues. We know that family / matters most. Bang, bang. “What will / we have today?” we ask / when we serve at oily restaurants.
Poetry by Colin Criss
Hydronym & Ghost Forests
In the lowlands of Virginia, an ecologist says, /If you remove humans from the picture, the coast is preparing itself.
Poetry by Emma Aylor
Lightly, Lightly & Sky
The soldiers are cradling their weapons, / their rainbows, their peacock tails
Poetry by Caroline Goodwin