Shaqti

‘These scavengers won’t go home’ he says, / Breaking the allegro of a tour through the Old City, / ‘Now Sudan doesn’t want them and Africa doesn’t want them.’ More

The Race to Incarcerate

Four panels from the graphic retelling of Marc Mauer's 2006 book Race to Incarcerate, illustrated by Sabrina Jones and forthcoming from New Press in April 2013. More

Joy Harjo: A Preview

Joy Harjo will be participating in Speaking in Languages on the Edge and Obsession: Joy Harjo on Time in the 2013 PEN World Voices Festival. Joy Harjo burst onto the international literary… More

Welcome to Comely Bank

Yet even in the midst of progress, history remained. Every town and city retained traces of its past: a statue; a plaque on a wall; a hitching post for… More

Sling Bag

The severed leg serves as his pillow when he sleeps. / The severed leg is placed on the dining table when he eats. / (Is he married? Let’s say… More

from Kissing the Sword

“Don’t you all constantly claim that you’re opposed to America? Then why has news of the shuttle exploding upset you so much?” She looked at me wide-eyed and said,… More

Sonia Sotomayor at PEN World Voices Festival

Nominated by President Barack Obama, Sonia Sotomayor assumed her role on the U.S. Supreme Court as Associate Justice on August 8, 2009 as the first Hispanic Justice. She was… More