Contributor Series 1: 9/11 9-12 By Danielle Cross (written September 12, 2009) The writer dedicates this poem to the loving memory of her husband’s cousin Tommy, who died in the disaster, and to all those who mourn. Ashes. To ashes we pour our tears, sculpt familiar faces with frantic hands, paint them with bleeding hearts. […]

Contributor Series 1: 9/11 New Day By Gianluca D’Elia (written September 2009) The writer, who was attending preschool on 9/11, dedicates this poem to the loving memory of his cousin, Joseph O. Pick, who died in the disaster, and to all those who mourn. This day still stays on my mind Since the moment it […]

Contributor Series 1: 9/11 9/11 By Sharon Poch (written September 11, 2002) Brittle brown days of autumn once lush with harvest scent now smell of ash, cinders, human flesh One plane, then a second slice through the innocent towers and they fall, screaming into September earth A bewildered blue sky blinks away tears of smoke […]

Contributor Series 1: 9/11 Afterwards By Kim Klugh (written in the days immediately following 9/11) The writer was in Lancaster, PA, working as a librarian in an elementary school on 9/11. the sun still chases the moon from the sky leaves still curl then drift from the tree like flakes of soot floating to the […]

Contributor Series 1: 9/11 The tv is on at work By Sarah Endo (written September 2009) The writer was in Boston, MA on 9/11. the tv is on at work– I see people tumble in the sky are they still alive air is soft, isn’t it the tv is on at work, but can we […]