Sunday, August 31, 2008

McCAIN'S SECRET RECIPE

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by Earl J. Wilcox Take one part outright madness; Add three parts beauty; Two parts guts; Four parts middle finger to the party. Stir until ...
Saturday, August 30, 2008

SO, HOW'S THE WEATHER?

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by Ana Doina For Dan Romascanu Ignore the distressing foreground the rampage, the killed pedestrians, the orphane...
Friday, August 29, 2008

FOR DEL MARTIN (1921-2008)

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by Mary Saracino “Lesbian rights pioneer Del Martin, whose trailblazing activism spanned more than five decades, most recently in the battle...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

HOT TALK

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by Spiel stark naked we’re equal in the sauna until i realize two buzzed jerks on the tier behind and above me are tossing severed iraqi bod...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008

MAYOR NAGIN RECEIVES

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AWARD OF DISTINCTION FOR RECOVERY, COURAGE AND LEADERSHIP By Diane Elayne Dees August heat melts Chocolate City; sidewalks buckle, minds on ...
Monday, August 25, 2008

THE FLAVOUR ORANGE

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by David Chorlton The day we had tickets for baseball temperatures reached one hundred and eight. We had one unopened bottle of mineral wate...
Sunday, August 24, 2008

BIDEN OUR TIME

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PoeArtry by Dr. Charles Frederickson & Saknarin Chinayote Wunderkind stutter nonsense tongue untwisted Shoots from lip taking on Drug co...
Saturday, August 23, 2008

ON FIRST READING KAY RYAN'S POEMS

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Homage to New Poet Laureate by Earl J. Wilcox Where Were you Those years I needed you When critics Told me Little Tall Thin Poems Did not Wo...
Friday, August 22, 2008

VOLUNTARY POVERTY

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by Bill Costley Wayback in the quick-rising ‘60s ‘voluntary poverty’ arose within the disaffected 1st-world's middle-class: suddenly its...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

AMERICA BOUGHT THE FARM

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by David Plumb Cash poured from clouds and crucifixes devoid of beard and harp. Tiny kings who once sold watches on their right arm held the...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

GEORGIA ON MY MIND

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by Phyllis Wax The flaming eyes of night hard red tears whistle in the dark Untamed the bear lumbers into a place he doesn’t belong         ...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

STILL LIFE WITH BODY PARTS

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by Alan Catlin This is what the News channels don't show you: the photos cropped, the devastation localized, sense of proportion denied,...
Monday, August 18, 2008

BEEHIVE

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by Jo Barbara Taylor 2007 was a bad year for bees. They abandoned ancient hives to disappear in the wind, it seemed, to change ecosystems—pe...
Saturday, August 16, 2008

BERKELEY AND MYTH
FEBRUARY 2008

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by Carol Dorf 1) February 13 In the park outside my classroom, flags -- Twenty foot by thirty foot stars and stripes Patriotic music blares ...