Write a poem that binds you and your reader as tightly as the zip ties encircling protestors’ wrists. Use empathy, compassion, complicity.

Following firings from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, workers and community members came together to create the Pittsburgh Progress.

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“We wanted to make a book that began to answer the questions Muriel Rukeyser asked. We wanted to make a book that continued to ask the questions she asked, of ourselves, of each other.”

“Our tongues tie trying / to articulate the knot,” writes Serena Chopra in her simultaneously tender and exacting new collection A Catalog of Future Mercies. When she writes, later, “I pry this int…

Two poetry collections that interrogate what we inherit from complicated legacies.

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Spark of dry grass, Russian thistle in flames, or butterflies bobbing as if pulled by unseen strings                      through the alleyway.

“What was the work the poet was demanding of me? It was to inhabit the poem, to live willingly in its world.” Those sentences were written by my late teacher Helen Vendler, and arrive in the second…

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