Thursday, November 23, 2023

BAND TOGETHER

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by Ron Riekki Print by Alessandra Roth available at Pixels If you give gifts for the holidays this year, I hope you’ll consider Kobabe’s  Ge...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

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by Marc Swan iHeart podcast Before we finish steaming bowls of homemade chicken soup at our favorite cafe on Washington Ave, talk shifts fro...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023

TREE TRIPTYCH

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by  Beth Evans   Cuttings   I walked the yard recently, Past the chickens, You know them well by now, The compost creators. Walked until I s...
Monday, November 20, 2023

QUESTIONS WE ASK OURSELVES

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by Rachel R. Baum A Moorpark College professor was charged Thursday with involuntary manslaughter and battery in the death of a Jewish prote...
Sunday, November 19, 2023

HAIL, MARY

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by Maria Lisella Buon giorno, buen dia  Maria Full of grace and wisdom and power The Lord may be with thee, and you May be Blessed among wom...

JERUSALEM LAMENTS

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by Greg Friedman William Blake, The Emanation of The Giant Albion, Object 41 detail from “Jerusalem” 1804 to 1820 From the south I hear thei...
Saturday, November 18, 2023

THE BANALITY OF MASS SHOOTINGS

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by Julie A. Dickson Photo from “Terror on Repeat:  A rare look at the devastation caused by AR-15 shootings” in The Washington Post , Novemb...
Friday, November 17, 2023

PLEASE CHOOSE

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by  Donald Sellitti Nina Chanel Abney, “Hobson’s Choice” (2017), acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 84 1/4 x 120 3/16 x 1 15/16 inches (imag...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

VERMIN

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by Nan Ottenritter As a child I had a recurring Nazi dream. A band of proud, uniformed Nazis  marched down my street, brass instruments blar...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

TO A CHORUS OF TEARS

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by tom bauer It seems inevitable his eyes would look like that singing that song, effulgent with yearning for things lost, as the river weav...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

A TOMATO FOR JOSEPH

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by Liz Rose Shulman Haidar Eid’s book available for pre-order today; shipping tomorrow from LeftWord Books. Note: The following poem adapts ...