The Day After

Read the essay here!

First published in Washington Writers Publishing House’s new anthology, ‘America’s Future: poetry and prose in response to tomorrow.’ ‘The Day After’, is an essay I was asked to work on for their print anthology in celebration of their 50th Anniversary. I hope you enjoy it - also available in print wherever you buy books.

Here is a review by Amanda Holmes Duffy in the Independent: “Which brings me to Leeya Mehta’s “The Day After: Searching for Language for Another Lost Generation.” This stand-out piece is a meditation on several challenges we’ve confronted in the past and which we face again today. Her compassion and wisdom steady me, as does her plea for a softening of rhetoric.”