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       presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues.

Friday, June 03, 2016

THE LONG REACH OF KARMA

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by Richard Hacken Kenneth W. Starr announced Wednesday that he would resign as chancellor of Baylor University, effective immediately,...
Thursday, June 02, 2016

THE RALLY

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by T R Poulson Image source: Snopes.com Crowded around the gleaming convention center, protestors light flames and collect bottl...
Wednesday, June 01, 2016

OPERATION SOPHIA

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by Jill Crainshaw through soul-searing saharan sands into a mythical sea of many names she brought forth her eighth-born child and...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

PREDICTION

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by Wendy Taylor Carlisle Coral reef scientists estimate that mass bleaching has killed 35% of corals on the northern and central Great ...
Monday, May 30, 2016

MEMORIAL DAY

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by William Cullen Jr. Relative places flowers at one of the tombstones in the Los Angeles National Cemetery (then the Sawtelle Veterans...
Sunday, May 29, 2016

BEFORE MEMORIAL DAY

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by James Penha Large group of school children, with their teacher, standing in a town street, circa 1850s. Daguerreotype by an unknown ...
Saturday, May 28, 2016

WEIGHING DAY

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by Devon Balwit  Mayor-weighing in High Wycombe, England on May 21, 2016. The custom is thought to go back to medieval times and be un...
Friday, May 27, 2016

VISIT TO HIROSHIMA

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by Alejandro Escudé A boy looks at a huge photograph showing Hiroshima city after the 1945 atomic bombing. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Mu...
Thursday, May 26, 2016

KOMAGATU MARU

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by Akua Lezli Hope Forgiveness,                       an evolution Apology                 is                                rev...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT BISON

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by Peg Quinn “On Monday, May 9, 2016, President Obama signed into law the National Bison Legacy Act, which designates the bison as the...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

AMERICAN HISTORY

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by George Held Photograph: Joe Burbank/ Orlando Sentinel/ EPA via The Guardian .               "I am honored and humbled to a...
Monday, May 23, 2016

THE DOG RUNS ON

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by Laura McHale Holland Alejandro Nieto was killed by police in the neighbourhood where he spent his whole life. Did he die because a f...
Sunday, May 22, 2016

THE RED SUITCASE

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by Jill Crainshaw she borrowed the suitcase from her cousin a faded fake leather red one that stood by the door all those w...
Saturday, May 21, 2016

STUMP POEM ASSEMBLED FROM DONALD TRUMP’S TWENTY MOST FREQUENTLY USED WORDS

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by Mara Adamitz Scrupe  if they can’t win         stupid            (they’re the) weak loser (s)           (they’re the) politic...
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