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       presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues.

Sunday, May 24, 2026

PROFIT AND LOSS STATEMENT FOR MR. B.

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by Steven Ratiner   “The Post needs to be a profitable enterprise that stands on its own two feet.  Let me tell you why. Because it’s a ...

SHADES OF AI AND ALTRUISM

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by Ashley Nicole Nootnagel Technology Instagram A California jury has tossed out Elon Musk's high-profile lawsuit against OpenAI and its...
Friday, May 22, 2026

AND YOU, WHAT DO YOU NEED?

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by Janet Ruth after Mary Oishi’s poem “I Need Poems”   These days I need the sun,             because it gives us light,           ...
Thursday, May 21, 2026

MYTHOS AT COMMENCEMENT

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by David Anson Lee Eric Schmidt stood at the stage like someone introducing age. He praised A.I.’s unfolding reign. The graduates booed him ...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

DETROIT DISPATCH

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by James Schwartz Among the declassified documents dump Via War.gov/UFO, A curious 1955 communication   Between the feds and  Detroit Flying...

JANUARY 6 SLUSH FUND LIMERICKS

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by Paul A. Freeman     Cartoon by Clay Jones DOJ official told GOP ally that big payouts were coming for Jan. 6 defendants: Months before th...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

NEVER LOOK A GRIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH

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by  Steven Kent Nigel Farage has provided a new explanation for why he accepted a £5m gift from a Reform UK donor in the weeks before he ann...

CANVASSING

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by Mark Williams AI-generated graphic by NightCafé for  The New Verse News . If a man’s home is his castle, he reluctantly lowered his drawb...
Monday, May 18, 2026

DO THEY KNOW?

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by Melanie Choukas-Bradley My nature app is as baffled as I Along the upland trail Above Rock Creek In the wild wooded heart of Washington, ...
Sunday, May 17, 2026

CONSTRUCTIONS

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by Tricia Knoll AI video created by Nightcafé for The New Verse News. Bowerbirds do it. Paper wasps. The beaver’s mound accessible from unde...
Saturday, May 16, 2026

NO KINGS

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by Joan Gerstein I painted two-foot high NO KINGS in bold block letters on my blue fence Months later   it remains unmolested Months later  ...
Friday, May 15, 2026

INHUMANE, CRUEL, UNACCEPTABLE

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State inspectors reviewed seven immigration detention facilities across California, including the recently opened California City detention ...

NOMENCLATURE

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by Frank Conahan Art by Michael Kline I read today that The disease formerly known  As "Polycystic "Ovary syndrome," (or as ...
Thursday, May 14, 2026

THE SIREN SONG OF TRUTH

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by Robin Stevens Payes Believe women. Believe girls. The women, the girls know. Our story ancient. Our voices new. They make us believe The ...
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