Showing posts with label jail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jail. Show all posts
Thursday, July 24, 2025

THE INJUSTICE THAT SCREAMS

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by  Chinedu lhekoronye  They say we are free— But chains still rattle in our dreams. Not of iron, but of law, Not of shackles, but of scheme...
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...
Monday, August 28, 2023

CELLULITIS

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by Felicia Nimue Ackerman Felicia Nimue Ackerman is a professor of philosophy at Brown University and has had over 260 poems published in p...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

UPON VOIDING PILLS

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by  Lavinia Kumar   Pill 1: Mifepristone   Man, White, Catholic, Texan Prestigious Hell-Hound  Cerberus   Fortify ice flames of men   Goose-...
Monday, April 03, 2023

I WANT TO SEE IT

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by Tricia Knoll Trump fingerprinted. Putting his fat fingers on the inky pad, rolling each one back  and forth like criminals do. Dirty hand...
Monday, October 19, 2020

THE CAN'T-WORRY TALES (EPILOGUE)

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by Richard Hacken Whan that panne-demie with her virrus bittre the lande with Mericanne courpses did littre, and swathed thus visages with c...
Friday, June 12, 2020

ZOOM COURT

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by Thomas J. Erickson It’s confounding having a hearing while I’m sitting in my living room. I have a pandemic beard and unruly ba...
Thursday, November 23, 2017

SOUND AND SILENCE

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by Gil Hoy He was unwantedly    relentless in his impetuous prolix pronouncements Could bend even   the most patient sturd...
Saturday, November 05, 2016

THE BRIDGE CLUB DISCUSSES THE ELECTION

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by Susan McLean Image source: Yahoo News Photo Illustration; Photo: AP/Getty) “If he groped her, she’s a liar."             ...
Friday, May 06, 2016

A COMPASSIONATE JUDGE AT THE VETERANS COURT

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by Phyllis Klein        “It was more of a father-son conversation. It was personal.” The Washington Post , April 22, 2016 ...
Saturday, September 12, 2015

NO AVAILABLE BEDS

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by Alejandro Escudé Young black man jailed since April for alleged $5 theft found dead in cell. Jamycheal Mitchell, 24, had been held ...
Monday, August 03, 2015

BELATED

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by Megan Collins I’ll admit I did it, too—loved a lion I’d never heard of until he was dead. Scrolling through photographs, I fel...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

DEAD MAN WALKING

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by Jeff Burt Source: Texas Department of Criminal Justice The last lynching will not occur in redneck backwoods, will not occur i...
Sunday, September 22, 2013

A MIGHTY WOMAN WITH A TORCH

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by Donna Barkman MADISON, WI ( WKOW August 27, 2013) -- Capitol Police have been arresting the Solidarity Singers for gathering witho...