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       presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues.

Sunday, January 31, 2016

MEDICAL ADVICE TO WOMEN OF CHILDBEARING AGE

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by Joan Mazza El Salvador wants women to avoid getting pregnant until 2018, out of concern for the Zika virus rampaging through Latin A...
Saturday, January 30, 2016

AT THE LEADING CANDIDATE'S RALLY

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by Steve Abbott The answer, of course, is simple: They are not like Us, Our heritage and faith and flag. Not like Us, who underst...
Friday, January 29, 2016

ALL THE CHILDREN

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by Cally Conan-Davies At least 25 refugees, including 10 children, drowned in the Aegean on Thursday when their boat sank off the coas...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

THE DOOR

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by Dino Siotis Greece has responded furiously to proposals to modify the Schengen agreement which would see the country’s borders ef...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

THE ALIGNMENT

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by David Chorlton The view of the five classical planets -- Mercury to Saturn -- improves over the next week or two as Mercury climbs h...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

SMACKED DOWN

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by Bill Sullivan Congress has historically treated drug abuse as a malady afflicting mostly poor, minority communities, best dealt wit...
Monday, January 25, 2016

THE DAY THE POLKAS CRIED

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by Laura Rodley For thirty-seven years Billy Belina drove in early morning light or total dark to spin the polkas on WMUA on Satu...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

JANUARY 11, 2016 — FOR ZIGGY

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by Bill Hurley David Bowie turned 69 recently. I turned 69 recently. 18 months ago, David Bowie found cancer in his body....
Saturday, January 23, 2016

BEAUTIFUL AND BITTER THE WATER

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by Matthew Johnson Before God had gone down to trouble those waters, I had dipped and wash you child in the calm waves Of the Nile...
Friday, January 22, 2016

THE TRAGEDY IN FLINT

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by Yi Wu The stream of cold and greedy blood, still pumped from fastened hearts at Michigan’s elites at speeds of clunkers stee...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

THE YOUNG SOLDIERS OF GUANTANAMO

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written on January 11, 2016, the fourteenth anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo Bay detention camp by Buff Whitman-Bradley Im...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

SMALL DARK OBJECT

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by Paul Smith Seconds after a Chicago police officer opened fire on him as he ran from a South Side traffic stop, 17-year-old Cedrick...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

ROSE HAMID: WOMAN OF SALAM

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by Sister Lou Ella Hickman she stood    wearing her clothes of peace she stood     quietly like hope a single bush surrounded b...

THE BOOK OF NEMESIS, CHAPTER 2016

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by Gilbert Allen Image source: DonkeyHotey                     And He said, I am The Great Candidate. All the others? Low energy...
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