Sunday, July 08, 2018

ON NOTICING HOW MANY PRO-LIFE MEN ARE SMOKERS

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by Julie Steiner Sing about the sanctity human life has. Preach with all your passion: Abortion’s murder! Afterwards, wind down wit...
Saturday, July 07, 2018

PRUITT’S PSYCHO FANCY

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an erasure poem by James Penha derived from Scott Pruitt’s resignation letter It has been an honor to serve you Truly your confide...
Friday, July 06, 2018

THE BORDER FAR AWAY

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by Jennifer Davis Michael My son is white like me, the border far away. According to his papers and my scar where forceps dragged hi...

CAGED

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by Buff Whitman-Bradley Empty holding cells are seen in the East Block for condemned prisoners during a tour of California's Death ...
Thursday, July 05, 2018

THE CAPITAL

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by Alejandro Escudé I know what the journalists were doing the second the glass doors shattered, each shard like a news story broken...
Wednesday, July 04, 2018

FLAGS, BARBECUES, AND FIREWORKS

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by Gil Hoy On America’s birthday, I worry that Fraying, sinewed colored threads are fading, Red-hot, burning coals blaze too ...
Tuesday, July 03, 2018

THE ALARM

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by Pepper Trail I was looking forward to this evening After long hours of work Sitting quietly in the upstairs room Gazing out at...
Monday, July 02, 2018

THE INVITATION

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by Paul Hostovsky Being white and having attended a few racial justice meetings where the talk is of cultivating authentic relation...
Sunday, July 01, 2018

ALWAYS TURN RIGHT, NEVER

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by Carol Parris Krauss People rallied in New York, including marching across the Brooklyn Bridge, on Saturday to protest President Trum...
Saturday, June 30, 2018

CROSSING THE LINE

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by Donna Katzin She only knows one number by heart— ten numerals imprinted in her brain— all that remains of family for a six-yea...
Friday, June 29, 2018

DONALD HALL (1928-2018), CURMUDGEON OF CURMUDGEONS

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 by Earl J Wilcox I do get it, Donald (may I?) all your cranky Ways when you arrived at your eighties. I’m there myself, too, and eve...
Thursday, June 28, 2018

DISASTER TENTS

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by Tricia Knoll Getty Images via Daily Kos, June 26, 2018 Beige vinyl heaves in the wind like a lung. Crackles. I know. The whine...

INTOLERANCE DEGREE ZERO: A LETTER FROM HOMELAND SECURITY, THE US ATTORNEY GENERAL, AND THE POTUS

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by Roxanne Lynn Doty As the White House faces court orders to reunite families separated at the border, immigrant children as young as ...

WOW! HE TWEETS

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by Ron Riekki When he writes “Wow!” he really means the opposite of Mom, the word flipped upside-down like families he’d love ...