Starting Today: poems for the first 100 days

The day before the inauguration we sent out a call to poets we admire to write poems that respond, however loosely, to the presidency, the nation, the government or the current political climate. More than one hundred American poets responded immediately. The first 100 poets were each assigned one of President Obama’s first hundred days in office, and each will write a poem reflecting on the state of the nation and the world on that day. A new poem is posted every day.

Rachel Zucker & Arielle Greenberg are poets, friends and frequent collaborators. Together they co-edited Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections.

Rachel lives in New York, NY.

Arielle lives in Evanston, IL and Belfast, ME.

Also, Daniel Shiffman is a genius.