2023-2024 Managing Editor Team

I have always believed that “the personal is political and the political is personal.” So to make sense of it all, I have to distill these all-consuming horrors down into a drop that I can manage through first a few words, then a few sentences.

The role of the poet is to try to keep speaking truth and shining a little light. The role of the poet is to stand up for human beings whose weeping voices are not being heard. – Naomi Shihab Nye