As July 4 looms in the near future, this poem by Alicia Ostriker so captures the state of the nation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xCQzHurMHc

Thanks to Kenneth Salzmann on “How to Grow A Poem” for bringing it to my attention.   Check our his site for interviews with intriguing American poets as well as links to their poems.

And thanks to Stephanie McCabe on Unsplash for the illustration.