By BJ WardSep 11, 2015
"This poem is trying to reach your mother/ in her business skirt, and get her home/ to Ridgewood where she can change/ to her robe and sip Chamomile tea/ as she looks through the bay window at the old,/ untouched New York City skyline." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 19, 2015
Poet Sonia Greenfield ruminates over the racism and ethnocentrism involved in international responses to epidemics, including the recent Ebola outbreak, which was mostly concentrated in West Africa. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 5, 2015
Jocelyn Macdonald's poem about the environmental crisis will have you quitting meat, riding your bike, chasing your dreams and spooning the love by your side, all to "slow down the rising of seas, the death of the bees [and] the electric current of spreading disease." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigJul 1, 2015
Ross Gay's unforgettable poem about Eric Garner--who was choked to death by an NYPD officer last July--reads like a memorial wreath, delicately pieced together with pain and sprouts of hope. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 17, 2015
Lisa Alvarez's straightforward poem gets to the core of a year in which violence against black people became impossible to look away from any longer. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 3, 2015
Purvi Shah's poem collects the voices and stories of some of the women who fasted to promote immigration reform as part of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 13, 2015
L.E. Goldstein's lyrical lines fill the imagination with the beauty of an area that is quickly becoming one of the many casualties of a world overrun with capitalist greed and corruption. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 29, 2015
Jill McDonough's poem drives home the idea that when it comes to the many lives taken in our ongoing drone wars, "On the screen or on the ground, death observed is still death." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 15, 2015
As the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon approaches, Paul Lobo Portugés' moving poem serves as a reminder of the pernicious and long-lasting effects American interventionism has had in Vietnam. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 1, 2015
Kenji Liu's poem about the 2014 conflict in Gaza is especially poignant to listen to as news of the Palestinian Authority joining the International Criminal Court spreads. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 18, 2015
Leslie McGrath's poem gives us an intimate look into a person's mind in the immediate aftermath of the April 15, 2013, tragedy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 4, 2015
Paul Hlava describes series "Negotiations" as a collage of "language, metaphors and quotes, from managers, workers and management flyers" that were used during a vote to form a collective bargaining unit. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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