The WriteAngles Journal

Patricia Smith, winner of the first Abel Meeropol Award

What’s the story with the Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award?

Like most stories, it’s not easy to know where to begin. Maybe in 1935, when a young Jewish high school teacher in the Bronx saw a photograph of a lynching. The image haunted him and he wrote a poem about it. That poem was published in a Teachers’ Union magazine. Then he set the poem …

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A List of Marvelous Moments in Unmarvelous Times

I. Seriously, the tree: Half orange/half green, like the reunification of Ireland. A dream on the misty-eyed lids of the hopeful. This is what I’d like to be – hopeful. A believer in rainbows, leprechauns and pots of gold. II. Today, the trees are gold – birches with smooth silver bark, young and unweathered. Trees …

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