Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Friday, August 08, 2025

AVERAGE DAY IN AMERICA

›
by Tina Williams AI-generated graphic by Shutterstock for  The New Verse News . I’m not hearing so well lately  and as my audiologist enters...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

MAMDANI

›
by  Indran Amirthanayagam Boffed, bumped, beaten,  bled and bleeding I have  lurched everywhere  seeking to straighten up,  to get on with t...
Friday, June 06, 2025

MY FRIEND TEXTS

›
by  Ron Riekki AI-generated graphic by NightCafé for  The New Verse News . “my typewriter is tombstone” —Charles Bukowski, “ 8 count ”   for...
Tuesday, June 03, 2025

WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE

›
by Pamela Kenley-Meschino Story at NPR , May 31, 2025 “For heaven’s sake…” it’s true, we are all going to die. But how and why, under what c...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

PAPILLON

›
by Lynn White France plans to build a maximum-security prison wing for drug traffickers and Islamic militants near a former penal colony in ...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

THE PASSOVER STORY: A MIDRASH

›
by  Joel Savishinsky   It seems that long ago,  there was a strong streak  of antisemitism in Egypt.  Something about domestic servitude.  L...
Thursday, April 10, 2025

CROCKPOT

›
by Scott C. Kaestner Dow Jones? More like Down Jones, right? Tariff is just another word for insider trading. Wake me up when it’s time  to ...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

PIETA

›
by Kay White Drew for Women’s History Month To the women in the Vietnam memorial: One of you holds the dying soldier, one hand to his chest....
Friday, March 07, 2025

WOMEN’S HISTORY 2025: SAY HER NAME

›
by Robin Stevens Payes my country is busy writing out history 1.       women 2.       immigrants 3.       ukraine so I must write them in   ...
Tuesday, February 04, 2025

I WILL MISS THE LARGE ANIMALS OF NORTH AMERICA

›
by Michael Brockley Woody Guthrie in March 1943. The bison. The grizzly bears. The jaguars that can’t leap over the wall along the border ri...
Saturday, July 13, 2024

DATA AIN’T WISDOM

›
 by Anita S Pulier Project 538, July 10, 2024 Even a perfect census will not put out the fire burning in the Nationalist heart. Nooses, conf...