New poetry by Luis-Lopez Maldonado: “Virus Como Chocolate” and “Pancho Villa, Cesar Chavez y Luis L…
Tag: politics
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 Nonfiction from Rob Bokkon: “The Last of the Gonzo Boys: P.J. O’Rourke, War, and the Evolution of a Political Mind”
“We hear the Iraqi army is systematically blowing up buildings in downtown Kuwait City. If the architecture in Kuwait…
New Poetry by Michael Carson: “Politics”
Politics Every 20 years or so boys dress up And kill each other for fun. It’s the way of the wrack of the world The w…
New Poetry by Naomi Ruth Lowinsky: “In And Out Of Time,” “In The Wake Of Our Lady Of The Double-Edged Axe The Notorious RBG,” “Prepping For Apocalypse,” “Sideswiped,” and “The Queen Of Souls”
IN AND OUT OF TIME In the fire-eaten landin the smoke-drenched airPUT CHARACTI dream PUT CHARACTCrystal Lake &nb…
New Nonfiction from J. Malcolm Garcia: “The Forced Disappearance of Sombath Somphone”
Ng Shui Meng speaks of her husband Sombath Somphone in the present tense, with a firm matter-of-fact tone about his d…
New Photo Essay by Arin Yoon: “Standing Up for Change”
My first encounter with Joana Scholtz was as I ran after her (and her husband, Rik Jackson) as they were exiting camp…
New Poetry from Michael Chang
the secret life of simon & the whale the boy inches close to the water &…
Election Special: To Hell With Civility by Rob Bokkon
I’m so tired of re-writing this article. The drafts kept piling up and piling up and piling up, one after the other. …
New Essay: How does Politics affect Writing, and Vice Versa?
I recently attended the 15th International Conference on the Short Story in Lisbon, where I met many interesting writ…
Memoir by Sari Fordham: “House Arrest in Thirteen Parts”
Part I: The House, circa 1977 The house in Uganda was red brick with a metal roof, a rusted water tank, and a screene…
New Poetry from Yuan Changming
[anagrammed variations of the american dream] A ram cairned me In a crammed era [where] Cameramen raid A dire camera…
New Poetry by Sherrie Fernandez-Williams
she be like, damn she be all tired. she be like a flattened house shoe she be full of compunction she be remembering …
An Interview with Helen Benedict, Author of WOLF SEASON
Helen Benedict is the author of seven novels, five books of nonfiction, and a play. Her most recent novel, WOLF SEASO…
Resistance Dispatches: Foreign and Domestic
Every American soldier takes an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies. Since I left the ser…
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…
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 …