Making History

By Marilyn Nelson Somebody took a picture of a class
standing in line to get polio shots,
and published it in the Weekly Reader.

Never Again (Rwanda Poem)

By Carlos Andrés Gómez This poem is in video format.

By Antoinette Brim Let the moon untangle itself
from the clothesline, as coming daylight
diminishes its lamp to memory.

By Naomi Shihab Nye Such a swift lump rises in the throat when
a uniformed woman spits Throw it away!
and you tremble to comply wondering why

By Jose Padua All the out of business auto body shops
on this slow highway, all the abandoned
buildings with peeling paint, the vacant

By Kim Roberts O augury seeker,
know and be aware...
In the book of divination,

By Kathleen O'Toole He arrived first as a student of geology
in the bicentennial year.
He witnessed

By Judith Arcana You 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 Penelope Scambly Schott Back when I used to march
in the noon of the green world,
I sang like a crow.

By Jane Seitel I wake into yet another day of doubt
creeping in as ants through a warped doorjamb.
The morning news brings new atrocities