Letter to America
by Richard Prins
Dear America,
I was stopped and frisked in Bloomberg’s New York. I’d just stepped out for a slice of pizza. I was walking back into my apartm... Read More...
Teach Me How to Fight
by Richard Prins
Sometimes I don’t know whether I am constructing bridges for Sepo, or digging the gulches she will have to cross. That’s why I take her to dem... Read More...
Two Poems
by H.K. Hummel
Finalist : Terrain.org 10th Annual Contest in Poetry
Click button above to hear H.K. Hummel introduce and read this poem, or click ... Read More...
Letter to America
by Andrew C. Gottlieb
The Question We'll Ask
Dear America:
We’re going to wonder about you for a long time.
I came to you as an immigrant when I wa... Read More...
Three Letter to America Poems
by David Hernandez
Those of Us Who Have Double Parked
are just as selfish as those of us who have split
two parking spaces. There are those of us
who ... Read More...
The Lawns, So Well-Tended
by Ana Maria Spagna
The lawns wowed me daily, the green green grass and the sidewalks swept of leaves and the neighbors on the weekends in work gloves and shorts,... Read More...
Letter to America
by Elizabeth Dodd
Guest Editorial: Witness the Present Mexican War
Dear America,
Henry David Thoreau has lived in my head all my adult life, a... Read More...
Letter to America
by Jeffrey Thomson
Guest Editorial
Dear America,
More than 150 years ago a woman in Amherst, Massachusetts, wrote this poem:
... Read More...
The Great Spirit of Inventiveness:
On the Writers & Artists as Activists Week
by Kelle Groom
Guest Editorial
After the presidential election, I was stunned and kept asking: What can we do? Alison Hawthorne Deming ... Read More...
Letter to America
by John Janovy, Jr.
Guest Editorial
Dear America,
We as a nation are being drowned by a narrative of fear and anger that now drives policy ... Read More...
Letter to America
by Bob Ferguson
Guest Editorial
Dear America,
Thank you for your letters—thousands of them.
When sitting down to write about the Trump Adm... Read More...
Letter to America
by Erin Malone
Click button above to hear Erin Malone read this poem, or click here to download the poem in .mp3 format.
Dear America:
The check... Read More...
