Showing posts with label presidential election. Show all posts
Showing posts with label presidential election. Show all posts
Saturday, October 24, 2020

JEREMIAH 2020AD

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by Julie Kramer Immigrant families wait in May 2019 in Los Ebanos, Tex., to be searched and taken to a U.S. Border Patrol station after they...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

SIMILE

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by Gil Hoy So now he's said:  "Maybe  I'll have to leave  the country  if I lose the election."  You mean  like a fleeing ...
Thursday, October 01, 2020

OCTOBER 2020

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by Buff Whitman-Bradley Embers fly from a tree as the Glass Fire burns. St. Helena, CA, September 27, 2020. Credit: Noah Berger/AP via The W...
Monday, September 28, 2020

AFTER THE ELECTION

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by Vincent Bell Lost Man  painting by Irena Jablonski at Saatchi Art He traveled for a long time to be near the Atlantic Ocean. He sleeps on...
Thursday, September 10, 2020

LOSERS AND SUCKERS

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by  Nan Ottenritter My Dad  Date of enlistment:                                         21 May 40 Education:               ...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

THE LONG PAUSE

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by Mickey J. Corrigan Illustration: Craig Stephens, The South China Morning Post, August 16, 2020 The night descended an oiled sl...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

NOVEMBER 2020

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by Gil Hoy Graphic: MoveOn.org When the poet's arrow hits the mark, a wishful paragraph can become a single word: Blue ...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

400 BIRDS

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by Preston Martin Photos of birds that died Wednesday, May 3, after crashing into a high-rise building in Galveston. Animal Control Off...
Sunday, March 26, 2017

MARCH MADNESS

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by Gerard Sarnat Image source: CNN Although an ambitious young father, I took a year off from work to be with my wife and firstbor...
Sunday, January 08, 2017

THE FIELD, SOMETHING BORES INTO IT

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by Alejandro Escudé Cover of the 2007 Washington Life feature on the Russian diplomatic compound in Maryland. The columns are gra...
Thursday, December 08, 2016

LESSONS FROM THE 2016 ELECTION

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by David Galef NEW YORK DAILY NEWS PHOTO ILLUSTRATION Narcissistic bigotry is never a crime. You can be a billionaire on a very th...
Tuesday, November 29, 2016

THANKSGIVING 2016—
A RETROSPECTIVE

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by Joan Colby Image source: Cooking with Drew Sky of beaten tin Addressed by the bare Limbs of the hickories. We gather to eat ...
Thursday, November 24, 2016

GIVING THANKS IN THE DISUNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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by George Salamon Archive photo of Thanksgiving at the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society in New York City. Give thanks with a beholden...

AMERICAN ICON

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by Lylanne Musselman Image source: Terapeak I saw a bald eagle today soaring back and forth, sewing the edge of a pure, fleecy cl...

GUZZLING DOWN THE BLUES

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a post-election ghazal by Joe Pacheco I wake up each morning but can’t turn on the news, My coffee’s cold and bitter with the Sore Lo...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

MY CHERRY TREE HAS FAILED TO YIELD

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by  Gregory Palmerino Gregory Palmerino ’s essays and poems have appeared in Explicator, Teaching English in the Two Year College...
Monday, November 21, 2016

THE THIRTEENTH MORNING AFTER

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by Lyndi O'Laughlin Image source: Loyal White Knights Someone put an Amazon box with a dirty bomb under the Wizard of Oz’s th...

BEFORE THE ANTI-TRUMP RALLY

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by Jon Wesick Model Train Museum, Balboa Park, San Diego Three hours sleep, one hour early I wander Balboa Park. If only today wa...

UNTITLED

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by Karen Neuberg And I’m carrying my teaspoon filled with water and I’ll pour it on the raging fire and I’ll go back and get more ...
Sunday, November 20, 2016

SPECTRUM: NOVEMBER 8, 2016

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by Deborah Kahan Kolb The day the red-ones drew the curtains and chose the orange-one to mind the white oval that had embraced the ...