Still: The Journal

Open Histories:  A Poetry Sampler 

We used the title of Jeremy B. Jones’s poem as a starting point for collecting the poems featured in this sampler. Jeremy’s poem is a personal history of a cousin soldiering in Iraq. His poem helped us think about how poets are reckoning the grammar and symbols of war and fear and hate so prevalent in our current state. Here are poems of personal and corporate violence and corruption, of a government incarcerating children, of climate change and environmental degradation. Here, too, are poets wrestling boldly and artistically with these outrages and brutalities. This is a provocative group of poems to read, but oh, so necessary. We are privileged to publish them.

~Marianne Worthington, poetry editor

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