Tag: poetry

  • July 9, 2024

    July 9, 2024

    In this poem, Joel Sronce weaves together three different soccer matches including a pickkup game at a schoolyard in Gaza during the genocide.

  • The perplexing smiles of the children of Palestine

    The perplexing smiles of the children of Palestine

    Poet and activist Marcellus Williams was murdered by the state of Missouri by lethal injection on September 24, 2024. In the last year of his life, among his poetry was this piece, written in solidarity with the people (and children) of Palestine, other victims of state sanctioned murder. Tempest re-runs the piece here in solidarity…

  • Haikus for the DNC

    Haikus for the DNC

    Poet, activist, and teacher Demetrius Noble shares poems arising from the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.