Thank you all for your patience as we prepared our next entry in the CHWP. I was on the road with my family, trying to...

The COVID-19 pandemic seems to bring us back to histories that many of us had previously been too distracted to entertain. Family histories, childhood memories,...

In her work, Anne Waldman asks again and again what it means to be a poet in our time. I think about this in relation...

This past week or two we’ve been seeing a surge in cases of COVID-19, and some states have reimposed restrictions that had been lifted only...

Omotara James’s poem, “Tripartite,” considers the violence of the now and the simultaneous flatness of sequestering oneself. It speaks to life in a sick nation...

It’s safe to say that most of us are thinking not only about what it means to be healthy in body but also and especially...

As a writer and bookseller, Fernando Flores has an eye and an ear for the humanity in absurdity. His contribution to the CHWP is a...

Several of the commissioned pieces for the Coffee House Writers Project, by Eloisa Amezcua, Fernando A. Flores, and Justin Walls, among others, were written in...

Our first CHWP publication is a multimedia piece from Eloisa Amezcua, a poet whose work challenges our ideas about what a poem can do, can...