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       presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues.

Sunday, December 18, 2022

GOING HOME

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by Anne Harding Woodworth Portrait of Grant Wahl by Dan Leydon. “ Grant arrived home Monday, December 12, and this transition was handled wi...
Saturday, December 17, 2022

WHAT WE WANT TO HEAR

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by Suzette Bishop A former Border Patrol agent who confessed to killing four sex workers in 2018 was convicted Wednesday of capital murder, ...
Friday, December 16, 2022

P-22

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by Barbara Parchim The famous Hollywood-roaming mountain lion known as P-22 is drastically underweight and was probably struck and injured b...
Thursday, December 15, 2022

A COLLAGE OF HANGINGS

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by Lisa St. John Iran executed a second prisoner on Monday convicted over crimes committed during the nationwide protests challenging the co...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

HISTORY RECALLS

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by Tom Bauer Everybody knew she was a trojan horse. (Just insert and get the power you need!) All that busy unity behind the scenes; one big...
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

DIASPORA FOOTBALL

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by Indran Amirthanayagam It was a difficult day at the Qatar World Cup. Our American ambassadors,  Argentina and Brazil, both with attacking...
Monday, December 12, 2022

BLEEDING

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by Mykyta Ryzhykh   All non-critical infrastructure in the Ukrainian port of Odesa was without power after Russia used Iranian-made drones t...
Sunday, December 11, 2022

ODE TO MY TESLA

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by Timothy Hennum Oh how shiny she sits, a cord thick as my wrist dangles from her hip. Oh how silent she moves, her screen—flat as a flag—g...

SPITBALL MASTER HAIKU

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Homage to Gaylord Perry, 1938-2022 CooperTunes by  Earl J. Wilcox Stiches seams       grip tight Gaylord’s secret sauce   in flight Cy Young...
Saturday, December 10, 2022

CROSSING THE DNIEPER

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by W. Luther Jett The small motor boat carrying Tetiana Svitlova and her husband, Vladyslav Svitlov, was hit by gunfire as the couple crosse...
Friday, December 09, 2022

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE...

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by  Darcy Grabenstein   They plastered their hate-filled propaganda on walls, on posts, anywhere, everywhere They started with boycotts of b...

REVENGE

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by Howie Good Antisemitic hate crimes in New York City more than doubled last month from a year ago, NYPD data show — a troubling trend that...
Thursday, December 08, 2022

WHITE PAPER

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by Alexis Krasilovsky Photocollage by the poet. Blank sheets of white paper were a symbol of defiance over the weekend as  Chinese  proteste...
Wednesday, December 07, 2022

OLD MAN IN WINTER

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by George Salamon CBS News Sacramento You live long enough you're no longer afraid of death, but of what life can still do to you. Georg...
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