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    <em>The Atlantic Daily</em>: 9 Poems for This Fraught Moment

    Writers and editors from around our newsroom pick ones worth revisiting.
    by Caroline Mimbs Nyce Aug 07, 2020 4 minutes

    Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.

    Poems hold power. As my colleague Hannah Giorgis put it: “Whether by conveying the scale of national grief during a pandemic, or exposing the relentlessness of racism, poetry has already created new ways of experiencing, and surviving, life’s darkest chapters.”

    I asked writers and editors from around our newsroom to choose a poem worth revisiting in this fraught moment. Consider . Or just let their selections fall over you, stanza by stanza, offering

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