Monday, March 31, 2008

A VISIT TO GUANTANAMO

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by Bonnie Naradzay This is the island of wire pens. The pens were built for men who fled their Haitian shacks in leaking crafts and rowed to...
Sunday, March 30, 2008

SOCIAL ECLIPSE

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by Kelley K. Vance day started like any other news crews blurting into conversations i was having with myself playing their interest-free ca...

IF YOU WANT A REVOLUTION

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by Mary Saracino Stand up Speak out Rattle the bars of your cage Open the doors, unlatch the windows Stare evil in the eye without flinching...
Saturday, March 29, 2008

DIGESTIBLE CONSUMPTION

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by Spiel just another bombing day where dozens bleed and die but this time enacted with images exactly like a video game each side so precis...
Friday, March 28, 2008

GOING GREEN

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by Carmen Tafolla “It’s a goddam materialistic world,” says my friend Steve, the poet. “when people care more for goddam corporate profits t...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

JUVENILE DELINQUENT

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by Anna-Elise Price brown irises swimming in deep white look up at me from chocolate skin young man, a child uncomfortable yet with his own ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

THE END TIME–-WHAT COMES

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by Patricia Barone Next no sound at all but the filling of a bowl with icy water high above their heads The Deity’s had it with puppets of p...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

BUSH, McCAIN DINE ON HOT DOGS IN WHITE HOUSE

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by Rochelle Ratner This is so good. And of course John enjoys it as well. Haven’t felt like this since I was a kid, he says. They sit at a p...
Monday, March 24, 2008

AP WIRE AS THEATRE OF THE ABSURD

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by Amy Holman What shall we do with the man whose legs were severed by the wing of the airplane he leapt from when we learn his name was Win...
Sunday, March 23, 2008

MY LAUNDROMAT

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by Michael Carosone I will buy a Laundromat so that I can take the perfectly blue and green rounded sphere which we call planet Earth and gi...
Friday, March 21, 2008

GOOD FRIDAY, 2008

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by Earl J. Wilcox Like other days, today I scour the sky, taste the wind, feel free thoughts about many splendid things out there, in here—I...

ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD

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by Barbara A. Taylor full moon the smell of a hyacinth spring fever outside the temple stinging eyes Barbara A. Taylor is a regular reader ...
Thursday, March 20, 2008

FINAL RENDEZVOUS

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for Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) by Deborah P. Kolodji Rama, named for a god, your cylindrical sea beckons…old childhood dreams, a death tod...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

FIVE YEARS AFTER

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by Alan Catlin for Norb Blei Five years after the terror war began war protestors in pink picket IRS HQ in DC "Stop payment for the W...