“If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they’d wake us up to the urgency of our times.”

Who says there’s just one safe way to walk, one road properly lit, and the rest – all slippery water, unmarked?

coming to the end of spring / my grandmother kicks off her shoes / steps out of her faltering body.

Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That’s a rate of 7,256 children’s lives saved each day. It drives me nuts that most people don’t seem to know this news.

Often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse.

As sad as it may be to admit, in our modern world people are far more accustomed to hearing news of war, genocide, murder, disasters, famine, and disease

I’ve always loved news. I’ve always loved storytelling and being where the scene is.

She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.

I don’t want the news to be patriotic. I don’t want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don’t want any of that.

You know all those dangerous mutants you hear about in the news? I’m the worst one.

When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.