You Were There — I Saw You
The morning after the election, I agonized about how to talk with my first-year students about the outcome.
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ReadDrone • Ferry Tale
The sky was a color / she loved most — / the holy blue / before Eid mornings. -
ReadThree Days Awake
Day 1: I woke and opened my eyes to a quiet morning, trying to feel if it was the end of an era. -
ReadRolling Thunder
I was born like anyone else. Mom and Dad loved me like anyone else’s parents loved them. Like anyone else, after school, ran from skinheads. -
ReadIn Spite Of
The night of the second presidential debate, I called my mother. It wasn’t supposed to be a political call; -
ReadPersonal Pronouns
Omar annoyed me for the normal reasons that students annoy teachers. -
ReadThe Great American Smackdown
Politics is like an awful off-Broadway play that can’t decide whether it’s a tragedy or a comedy. -
ReadPantoum for Baltimore
On the streets of the two cities is found / a pattern or practice of conduct that violates / the Constitution or federal law -
ReadYou Are Politics
Politics is where we wake up — it is the hope that the structure that exists around us is not actively trying to destroy us. -
ReadWe Are Still Here
It is September 23, 2016, and you’re reading this because our classmates, faculty, campus, community, state, and nation didn’t listen last time -
ReadLorca in New York
In the summer of 2015, I was working in Spain for a theater project with a Spaniard friend of mine. -
ReadI Was the Walrus
I grew up in a schism. My father came of age in a Jewish family from Massapequa, New York, and my mother a Baptist family from Dalton, Massachusetts. -
Read“You’re So White”
My melanin is not enough to hold my culture. -
ReadWhen You Shoot Horses
On a family ranch, you have to earn your belonging. -
ReadDayspring Cíntia
There’s a certain art of being able to navigate failure in order to reach a point of alignment.