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       presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues.

Friday, April 12, 2019

PRESENCE IN THE ABSENCE

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by Mary K O'Melveny Illustration by Andy Gilmore for The New York Times , October 4, 2018. Stephen Hawking said that particles tha...

BLACK HOLES

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by Rick Mullin The Quantum Black Hole by John Baez I liked the way they looked in my imagination. Huge aortas in the midnight sky d...

BLACK HOLE

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by Sally Zakariya Today (April 10), a global collaboration of more than 200 astronomers presented the first image of a directly-observe...
Thursday, April 11, 2019

ASYLUM SONG

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by M.H. Spicknall Hundreds of migrants are being held under an El Paso, Texas bridge without clean water or proper shelter. —NowThis N...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

THE TIN MAN

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by Matthew McDermott Coco Fusco: Twilight at The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL.  Beauty makes me long to b...
Tuesday, April 09, 2019

THE DAY THE CROWS CAME

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by Susan Carlson Crows by Mary Quite Сontrary A crow floats past on level wings noiselessly. —D.H. Lawrence, "Winter-Lull...
Monday, April 08, 2019

OUR COUNTRY IS FULL

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by Philip C. Kolin "Horton Hears a Hoax" posted by george_spiggott at TPM The country is too full of borders, ports of e...
Sunday, April 07, 2019

[muh-nip-yuh-ley-shuh n]

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by Rémy Dambron   oil pastel drawing manipulated in photoshop by u/monealiza the art of manipulation is not about making people do...
Saturday, April 06, 2019

THE WOMAN CARD

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by Skaidrite Stelzer Too hard to say the exact words, the exacting words. How a hand can be placed on a shoulder; the sudden shudd...

AN AWKWARD AGE

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by Wayne Scheer Hugs were rare where I grew up, reserved for mother/son greetings and father/daughter consoling. I don't recal...
Friday, April 05, 2019

THE WATCHERS

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by Jonel Abellanosa "Are we alone? Probably not. After all, astronomers have already found 4,001 confirmed exoplanets in our Milky...
Thursday, April 04, 2019

IT'S A SIGN

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by Jean Varda It’s a sign, the black charred ground the empty space where ponderosa, cedar and oaks once stood tall and stately It’s...
Wednesday, April 03, 2019

A GOLDEN SHOVEL FOR THE RESISTANCE

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by Lynne Knight Image source: Greenpeace The Special Counsel states that “while this report does not conclude that the President c...
Tuesday, April 02, 2019

A CHANGE OF PLAN

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by R.G. Jodah Henley Homes, a property developer, markets Baylis Old School, their 149-home London development on the site of a former ...
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