Tag: poem
Flags at Half-Staff
Eric Rozenman came to DC in 1980 as a congressional staffer and worked on or near Capitol Hill for many years. He is now...
The Poetic Hill
Gina Sangster is a DC native who grew up on Capitol Hill and raised her three children here. A therapist, she has had poetry...
The Poetic Hill: Pivot
Sandra J. Lee is a native Washingtonian. She has an adult daughter and works in the childcare field. Her poem below puts an eloquent...
The Poetic Hill: Impossibly Free
Tori Collins has long been inspired by the power of words—she cites James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, and E. Ethelbert Miller...
A Woman Who Helped Pave the Way
A Thorn in Her Heart
With a Black woman now slated to sit on the Supreme Court, children today may have trouble grasping the extent...
Joe Bisicchia’s Corvus Frugilegus
Joe Bisicchia’s works have appeared in numerous publications, with more than 170 individual poems published, and he received an Honorable Mention for the Fernando...
Searchings: The Poetic Hill
Dana Gittings is a DC-area poet whose forthcoming collection, “The Dark Dance,” explores how a shared thread of compulsivity can, through the vehicle of...
The Poetic Hill: From A Child of Borrowed Churches
Gabriela Orozco grew up on Capitol Hill, the daughter of a father from Nicaragua and a mother whose family is South African Ashkenazi. In...
The Poetic Hill, September 2021
L.B. Sedlacek is a poet, editor, publisher, author, and poetry reviewer whose poetry, fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous journals, zines and newspapers....
The Poetic Hill: Changing Hearts, Right or Wrong
In something of a departure this month, we’re reaching back in time to highlight a poet featured in Kim Roberts’s new anthology, “By Broad...
