New poem by DR James: Surreal Expulsion
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Tag: America
New Poetry by Damian White: “Alabaster Clouds”
New Poetry by Damian White: “Alabaster Clouds”
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New Poetry by Steve Gerson: “Our Prayers”
Our Prayers where are the shields/we need/to stop the blastof bullets Glockand AKassaults?that overwhelm the bluein o…
New Poetry by Todd Heldt: “This Is A Drill, This Is Only A Drill” and “Suffer The Children”
ACTION IS PRETTY / image by Amalie Flynn This is a drill. This is only a drill. They voted to abolish history.…
New Review: BRAVO! Ben Fountain Scores a Touchdown on Reality
Americans do not genuinely support the troops. This is the impression Ben Fountain’s 2012 war novel Billy Lynn’s…
“Daily Exercise”, “America”, “I Tell My Children”
daily exercise (haiku) my morning poemshave begun to sound like Tweetsfragments of bird song America we best reflect …
New Poetry: “Layla’s first buck” by Denise Jarrott
her father said it was his favorite thing about her, that she was a hunter, like he is. she holds its head up for the…
New Poetry: “What Great Grief Has Made the Civilian Mute” by Jennifer Murphy
To watch soldiers load into planes on television To ignore veterans who manage to make it home To cry out when an air…
Scrabble Can Build or Break Friendship
My Sunday morning began with a Wall Street Journal article about Scrabble. The story, which featured scrappy young Ni…
The Bloodiest American War Many Americans Have Never Heard Of
The title, which I selected myself, is a trick. Most citizens of the United States of America know their war his…
Bernie Sanders Wins in Iowa!
Photo Credit: J. David Ake, AP. Senator Bernie Sanders and his wife, Jane. Regardless of what the official results might…
Thoughts on the Zombie Apocalypse
A piece about who finds zombie narratives compelling and why.
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Against Obvious Racism
Let’s be honest about racism. It’s here. And it’s not going anywhere. But its prevalence is surpris…
America and Iran: The Great Post-Persia Hangover
We never meant things to get out of hand the way they did in Iran. Let's agree about that to begin with, let…