Wednesday, November 30, 2011

MITT ROMNEY PRAYS TO JANUS

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by Ed Shacklee O Thou, who looks both ways through every gate, Who makes my well-intentioned path seem straight, Who forked the subtle...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

BLACK FRIDAY / BLOODY SUNDAY

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by Alan Catlin In the News: Lady pepper sprays fellow shoppers to gain better access to limited- time-only sale items. Temporary e...
Monday, November 28, 2011

TWILIGHT OF THE GREATEST GENERATION

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by Zev Shanken Born in the Twenties before the Wall Street Crash, raised with the lessons of the Great Depression, The Greatest Generat...
Sunday, November 27, 2011

GREENBACKSTREETS

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 Poems by Charles Frederickson;  Graphic by Saknarin Chinayote  WALL MAIN SESAME EASY MEAN Empowering humanimals many shapes colors Ge...
Saturday, November 26, 2011

CHILDREN FOR WALL STREET

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by Janice D. Soderling "And shall I still be allowed to wear ribbons in my mane?" asked Mollie. 
 --Animal Farm , George Orwell...
Friday, November 25, 2011

POETS LAUREATE MAKE NEWS

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by Bill Costley Mayor Bloomberg lets NYC cops demolish a signed first-edition donated to Occupy Wall. St., by Philip Levine, current U...
Thursday, November 24, 2011

GIVING THANKS

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by Lee Patton  46th November  This sky seems to write no promises--  its gray sheet stretches taut, papering  over the sun. Turkey grav...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

EARLY THANKSGIVING MIGRATION

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by Laura Rodley On our way back home, from the train window we watch the dried grass, mesquite, and pinon, terra cotta adobe homes hig...

FOLLOWING ORDERS

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by Tom Karlson Quan and Bloomberg New York to Oakland Master and poodle Deliverers of well being and health Big love sent with Riot...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

FIVE FADING MEMORIES OF NOVEMBER

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by J.R. Solonche November 22, 1963 1. Gunshots. A Lincoln convertible. Walter Cronkite’s tears. A black veil. The wheels of the c...
Monday, November 21, 2011

AMERICA'S HEART

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by Paul Dickey I have a stick I bought on eBay 
 from a flogging tree 
 once in a now closed museum.
 I have a poem.
 I have a quotat...
Sunday, November 20, 2011

DEMOCRACY REDEFINED

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by Ron Singer Moammar Gadhafi was a democrat, self-proclaimed. “In Arabic,” he explained, “ dama means remain , and kursi is a seat...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

OCCUPY AMERICA

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by F.I. Goldhaber Young and old, jobless and under employed they stream downtown to pitch their tents. In the face of tear gas and ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

WITNESS

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by Khary Jackson When the police violence occurred again later that night, they broke the ribs of another English professor, poet Geoffre...