Writing is an act of resistance
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Dear Daughter by Lia Langworthy
Dear daughter, Your body shook with tears as CNN declared him the winner. Numb and stoic, I held you, the circuits of my mind overloaded, broken, unable to process what I was hearing and seeing. I imploded with treacherous emotions. Comforting words eluded me. I called your father, for him to deal with your fears…
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Sad Homage to Whitman
By Mark J. Mitchell Fatigued and down-hearted I read the result of the vote. Wind has been stolen from my sails. Fellow travelers jump, one by one, off the plank. over the low gunwale of the ship of state. Allons! November 9, 2016 Mark J. Mitchell studied writing at UC Santa Cruz under Raymond Carver…
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War Dogs #2 by Patrick Brown
Patrick Brown artist, Visual AIDS, Escondido Arts Partnership Municipal Gallery, The Studio Door San Diego, ImageA profile of the artist Artist Patrick Brown is a fairly quiet man—perhaps a bit shy—with a cute laugh, a slight Southern accent, and a gentle sadness that sometimes shades his eyes. It’s a companionable sorrow, though. It reaches into his paintings and says, “It might hurt, but it’s OK to look; you know…
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Reasons to post a photo of a dead child from Aleppo
Sergio A. Ortiz poet, Undertow Tanka Review, Maram Al-Masri poet, Elle va nue la liberté, Freedom She Comes Naked, PoetryBy Sergio A. Ortiz Omran was a Syrian boy: Our son defeated in front of the sea after chasing the dawn, our little brother cleft by the blows of the crab that was death, nothingness, emptiness, a thick river of icy water. Our child like all other innocent children whom they bombed in Aleppo and are…
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A Century of Chipping at the Ceiling
Robbie Gamble poet, Jeannette Rankin, The Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History, Wilma Mankiller, Gwendolyn Mink, Marysa Navarro, Barbara Smith, Gloria Steinem, EssayBy Robbie Gamble When I was seven years old, my parents escorted me into a room in a retirement home in Carmel, CA, to meet an old friend of the family. She was a slight, elderly woman with a friendly face and a clear strong voice, and she knew how to set a fidgety, slightly…
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3 a.m. November 11, 2016 Turtle Cove Cottage Po’ipu, Kaua’i
By Chris Cummings and David Cummings * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * D: Drain the swamp he brays the president-elect from his gold leaf bedroom in his gold leaf tower Drain it he inveighs * * * * * * * * …
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When the New Cabinet Exercises
By Tricia Knoll They will be back where the snow falls on camp tents, cookfires and legends of stars so cold you know they froze in the middle of a myth of creation where someone blue lifted up the egg and old women sang the birth song. They will be back when snow is…
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Transition Team
By I.E. Sommsin I.E. Sommsin, a writer and artist from Kentucky, lives in San Francisco. The images, ink and watercolor on shirt cardboard, don’t represent individual persons, but are symbolic of the transition the country is now making.
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Divided We Stand
By Janice Grinsell Pastel drawing on paper/ iphoneography composite. Artist’s statement “Divided We Stand” was born on election night when the sea of red pushed into a nauseous realization that Trump would be … Janice Grinsell is a multidisciplinary artist fascinated with the exploration and combination of media. She has a vast portfolio that…