New poem by DR James: Surreal Expulsion
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Tag: Gun Violence
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 Fiction from Kirsten Eve Beachy: “Soft Target”
For Sallie. By Picture Day in November, Sophie had perfected the downward stab and counting to twenty. She clenched h…
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 Poetry by Carol Everett Adams: “Rabbit Trails”
RABBIT TRAILS in the Texas dust. We’re flat in the dirt so we can poke around down there with a long st…
“All. art. is. political:” An interview with Roy G. Guzmán and Miguel M. Morales
Our two featured poems for the month are selections from Roy G. Guzmán and Miguel M. Morales’s anthology, Pulse…
New Poetry from Nicole Oquendo and James A.H. White
The following poems are reprinted with permission from the anthology Pulse/Pulso: In Remembrance of Orlando (Damaged …
It’s All So Familiar; It’s All So Heartbreaking
Today, November 24th, 2015, Jason Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Laquan McDonald in …
The Racist Arguments For, Against Gun Control
Gun violence is deeply entrenched in America. Chances are, if you’ve spent any time outside the Upper East Side of Ma…
On Gun Violence and the Second Amendment
America has a problem with violence, and specifically gun violence. This is a fact, not an opinion, and is confirmed …