Showing posts with label William Aarnes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Aarnes. Show all posts
Saturday, May 09, 2026

HOW TO MAKE THE RICH EVEN RICHER

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an American Senryu by William Aarnes The companies making billions from the Iran war. — BBC , May 8, 2026 Declare war (well, don’t).   Decla...
Sunday, March 16, 2025

MORNING IN THE APARTMENT, MARCH 2025

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by William Aarnes After Jane Kenyon’s “Afternoon in the House” This morning’s news has been nothing but reports of mean-spirited wrong after...
Monday, December 09, 2024

THE JOB INTERVIEW

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by William Aarnes AI graphic by NightCafe for The New Verse News Want a Job in the Trump Administration? Be Prepared for the Loyalty Test. —...
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

THE DEMOCRATS' POST-MORTEM 2024

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by William Aarnes Graphic credit:  Eniola Odetunde    Axios That shamelessness could triumph is our shame.   What tactic worked? Beyoncé’s w...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

GARBAGE

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by William Aarnes AI-generated graphic by Shutterstock for  The New Verse News .               persona sin valor I like to imagine a Puerto ...
Saturday, October 19, 2024

FEMA AND MY DEAD PARENTS

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by William Aarnes FEMA was authorized in 1979   Lately, it seems raging storms have gotten worse and the news about people hunting FEMA agen...
Friday, May 10, 2024

LEAFLET

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by William Aarnes Imagine yourself old enough to have survived Operations Cast Lead and Protective Edge.   Imagine a fellow refugee         ...
Thursday, April 25, 2024

AMERICAN SENRYU: FRAMED DIPLOMAS ON THE WALL

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by William Aarnes Despite PhDs, administrators will fail the test of protest. William Aarnes lives in Manhattan.
Monday, April 01, 2024

THE DREAD

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by William Aarnes   after reading Stanley’s Kunitz’s translations of Anna Akhmatova         for the contributors to  The   New Verse News “H...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

HURRY

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by William Aarnes Bird populations are declining  — a staggering  loss of 3 billion breeding adults , or nearly 30 percent of the population...
Sunday, October 01, 2023

CAN WE SEE THE SUN?

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by William Aarnes Beth and I are wearing masks and, as can happen on the subway,   the unmasked man across the aisle raises his voice to eve...