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       presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues.

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

ODE TO THE HONEY LOCUST

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by Therese Gleason With a line from “All Hallows” by Louise Glück (1943-2023) I want to write a poem about autumn  that doesn’t decay  and ...
Tuesday, October 24, 2023

REMEMBER THE MISSING

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by   Lois Marie Harrod An installation in the form of a dinner table set for Shabbat, the Jewish sabbath, stands outside the Tel Aviv Museum...
Monday, October 23, 2023

OLIVES

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by Gabriella Brand Johannesburg-born artist Adam Broomberg, 53, took photographs of olive trees to his mother just before she died in Decemb...
Sunday, October 22, 2023

A SLAP IN THE FACE

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by Paul Hostovsky One man slaps another as hard as he can in the face. A third runs up with a microphone and asks the slapped man how it fee...
Saturday, October 21, 2023

SABBATH

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by Chris Reed The deepening fall stalls my step, invites a seasonal sabbath, a slowing of time, luring me to witness the dying world, the re...
Friday, October 20, 2023

CONVERSELY…

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by  Regina YC Garcia Bracha Lavee Art Studio All land is holy/land was holy  until it is not/until it was not Land that has been  planted/ha...

HUMAN

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by  Darrell Petska Photograph and sculpture by Yuichi Ikehata I’m part American, part Czech, part Israeli and Kenyan, part Russian, Swedish,...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

EACH DEVASTATION

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by  Linda Conroy “Blue Shadow” (o riginal hand painted Acrylic painting of Blue petals in different shades)  by Deepu .   brings blue shadow...

LINES WRITTEN IN A SUBWAY CAR

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by W. Luther Jett “Pity” (1795) by William Blake - Tate Britain, Public Domain And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or ...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

COLLECTIVE NOUNS FOR BIRDS

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by Katherine Page Workers at the Field Museum in Chicago inspecting birds that were killed when they flew into the windows of the McCormick ...

MY STEPSON IN TEL AVIV SENDS A SHORT VIDEO

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by Catherine Gonick At night, on a street near his house neighbors follow as soldiers carry a spent missile as if it were a body. The weapon...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP

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by Jeremy Nathan Marks in memory of Wadea Al-Fayoume (6 years old) The last words of a six-year-old US Muslim boy stabbed to death in a susp...
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