Sunday, August 02, 2026

A POEM IN WHICH THE WORD ‘BABY’ IS REPLACED BY THE WORD ‘CHOICE’

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by Yoda Olinyk Choices are fun! Everyone should have choices! Women were put on this earth to have choices. Choices are holy and should be p...

PERSEAE AMERICANAE

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by Frank Conahan All avocado trees  are cosexual, Or hermaphrodites. They each contain two sexes  In every plant.  "A-trees" start...
Saturday, August 01, 2026

WHITEWASH

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by Kay White Drew “President Donald Trump ordered his administration Friday to install signs in front of the Smithsonian Institution’s U.S. ...

CONTAINMENT REPORT

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by Zumwalt Graphic created by the poet using  Nano Banana Pro. US technology firm Anthropic says its AI models hacked into the systems of th...
Friday, July 31, 2026

A ROTTEN TIME

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by Marge Piercy After violent months of war no one can win, men with assault rifles doing what they were built to do, kill many,   world bur...

THE BLAME GAME

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by Joel Savishinsky It is hard to predict where      the next contagion will erupt,           or how, or when.   Most of us do not even unde...
Thursday, July 30, 2026

ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE OLD WEST

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by Gale Naylor AI-generated graphic by NightCafé for  The New Verse News . ice melting at the poles was our nightmare scenario—still is—but ...

PUBLIC TRUST

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by Dustin Miller this morning a woman walked alone through the park early sixties maybe black mullet lycra shorts  cutoff cotton shirt the s...
Wednesday, July 29, 2026

PORTRAIT OF A PRIMARY

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by James Schwartz The many vs. the money  Michigan vs. everybody  Hospitals close & Everyone knows  Our roads are too shoddy  Medicare f...

SOME TIME NO FISH

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by Mickey J. Corrigan The mysterious deaths of Jeffrey Epstein’s friends — The Independent (UK), July 26, 2026 So many dead in suspicious m...
Tuesday, July 28, 2026

SECTION 106: A PLEA FROM A POET ARCHEOLOGIST

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by Kim Malinowski The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) on Friday  a voted to advance a notice of proposed rulemaking that wo...

BEN SHAHN VISITS ICE DETENTION CENTERS

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by Rikki Santer ICE Detention Center in North Carolina to Be Among Largest on East Coast: The new complex near the Virginia border signals t...