Poet with a Press Pass
...Because Poetry Is Always Relevant!
With her Poet with a Press Pass blogposts and podcasts,
Anne McCrady offers poems in response to world events and global news.
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POEM TITLE |
WORLD NEWS TOPIC |
| "What Are the Odds?" | AirAsia Flight QZ8501 |
| "No Laughing Matter" | Paris Terrorist Attacks |
| "How It Is" | Monday, January 19, 2015 |
| "Family History" | Discovery of a Skull in Manot Cave |
| "To Kill" |
ISIS and Harper Lee's New Book |
| "Deliveries" | Legislation Regarding Drones |
| "Separate Entry" | Women's History Month |
| "Observe Warning Signs" | Indiana's New "Freedom" Law |
| "Inside Iran" | Nuclear Agreement with Iran |
| "Collapsed" | Earthquake in Nepal |
| "EEG" | Surge in Neurotechnology |
| "After the Storm" | Deadly Tornadoes in Texas |
| "Fue el Estado" | 43 Kidnapped Students in Mexico |
| "Laudato Si" | Pope's environmental Encyclical |
| "The Deadliest Creature" | Time Magazine's Answers Issue |
| "I Now Pronounce" | U.S. Marriage Equality |
| "Open" | W.S. Embassy Opens in Cuba |
| "Treasure" | Beheading of Khaled Al-Asaad by ISIS |
| "On the Move" | Refugees in Europe |
| "Tough Guy" | Putin in Syria |
| "Roadmap to Peace" | Surge in Middle East Violence |
| "Questioned" | Rampant Rapes in India |
| "Death by Ideology" | ISIS in Paris |
| "Holiday Greeting Card" | 2015 Climate Summit |
| "Close Call" | Global Death Toll |
| "Now She Knows" | Wikidpedia's 15th Anniversary |
| "WHO Knows" | Zika Virus Spreads |
| "Safe" | Global Threat |
| "Primary News" | Donald Trump |
| "Evergreen" | Oldest Pine Twig |
| "The Color of Bone" | Syrian Hospital Bombed |
| "Safe Haven" | Panama Papers |
| "Ummah" | OIC Arab Leaders Meet |
| "Ripple" | Google Honors Hertha Ayrton |
| "Visitations after Baghdad" | ISIS in Sadr City |
| "All Grown Up" | Bullies as Leaders |
| "Pulse, 2016" | Orlando Shooting |
| "What I Tell Children" | Death of Elie Wiesel |
| "The Drop of Honey" | American Devisiveness |
| "Dust on the Tongue" | Aleppo |
| "This Choice" | U.S. Presidential Campaign |
| "Storm Surge" | Hurricane Matthew & Politics |
| "What Next" | U.S. Election Results |
| "New Day" | January 1, 2017 |
| "Watching Obama Say Goodbye" | Obama's Farewell |
| "Semester Break" | U.S. Travel Ban |
| "Women and Children" | The Plight of Families |
| "I Can't Even Talk About It" | Syrian Gas Attack |
| "Writing in the Time of Trump" | Constitutional Crisis |
| "Health. Care. Well. Being." | U.S. Healthcare Policy |
| "An Old Story" | Children in Poverty |
| "Exceptions" | National Guilt |
| "In Place" | Disturbing Political News |
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