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A Phrasal Verb Primer: Poetic Hill

Natasha Saje was born stateless in Germany and grew up in New York City and its suburbs. She learned to love DC (Pier 9!...

Poetic Hill: Ode to Champagne

Jona Colson Jona Colson’s poetry collection, “Said Through Glass,” won the 2018 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from the Washington Writers’ Publishing House. He is also...

For the Growing Boy

Dwayne Lawson-Brown, aka the Crochet Kingpin, is co-host of Spit Dat, the longest running open mic in Washington, D.C. Born and raised in Washington,...

Poetic Hill: Fresh

Rekha Mehra has lived in the Capitol Hill neighborhood since 1986 with an interlude of five years when she worked for the Ford Foundation...

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...

Poem for Stacey Abrams

Baseball Trilogy When you combine a national treasure with the national pastime, you can’t lose. E. Ethelbert Miller is a literary activist and award-winning poet...

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...

What Lies Within – The Poetic Hill

Capitol Hill resident Sarah Dawn Petrin is a humanitarian, poet and writer who is the author of “Bring Rain: Helping Humanity in Crisis,” in...

Jesus Had A Name for You

Chris Haley has published two previous books of poetry ‒ “Obsessions” and “Until the Right One Comes Along” ‒ and has just issued a...

Face to Face: The Poetic Hill

Capitol Hill poet Jean Nordhaus is the author of several highly regarded poetry collections, including “A Bracelet of Lies” (1987), “The Porcelain Apes of Moses Mendelssohn” (2002), “Innocence” (2006),...