Starting Today: Poems for the First 100 Days

Starting Today is a simple blog edited by poets Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker. On January 19, 2009, they contacted poets all over the USA, asking them to "write poems that respond, however loosely, to the presidency, the nation, the government or the current political climate." On each of President Obama's first 100 days in office, Greenberg and Zucker posted one of the poems. The result is an eclectic mix of work (and writers) that is at once a catalog of the events of the first three months and a meditation on the nuanced thoughts and feelings that have emerged from a traumatic and historic time in American life.