Writing is an act of resistance
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Two poems by Ginny Lowe Connors
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What ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ Reveals about Humans
By Martin Ott Yes, we can be convinced to cheer for our own extinction. My coworker debates which side to root for but settles on apes. Humans act like monsters or have always yanked borderlines into garrotes. The creatures learn to communicate and are almost undone by curses, signs, and guns. Least among us…
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Active 3D printer situation
By Tara Campbell Before you download the plans for your AR-15 please also download the plans for our son In case of loss please reprint the following: one son who loves his dog and his friends at school and his little sister and even his parents you know he’s still young enough to say…
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From the Field
By Anthony Ceballos With the barrel of a gun, you have drawn a line in the soil and told us to stay on our side, we are merely creatures of the dirt to you; from us you have taken food and shelter, water and dignity, our children swallow thorns and pride is hanging from…
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Out of Brokenness
By Kathy Lauderdale December 25, 2016 finds me in Richmond, Virginia, trying to put a festive face forward while feeling stark desolation and heartache. The election leaves me questioning the values of my neighbors. Everything I know to be true has shifted, resulting in an odd sense of being off balance. My sweet daughter-in-law,…
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This Union
By Samara Golabuk In the hegemony of discontinuity, we have laughter on the stairs that flies up like a murder of crows into brushed metal skies tasting nothing like the pure rule of dog law. In the circling year, spiders crawl through our eyes while our hearts sing ruddy bloody chanties ripe with crocus…
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Nike Adjusting Her Sandal, Again
By Anastasia Vassos She stops, breathless, she lifts her heel behind her to straighten her stocking before she pulls at her jacket to make sure there are no wrinkles, before she runs into H.R. breathless to tell Susan, who’s sitting at her desk, that Bob continues to make lewd comments and won’t let it go,…
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Behold the Anti-Trump March in London
Dump Trump, Courage calls to courage everywhere, Millicent Fawcett, Trump Fossil Fool, Make the Planet Great Again, Ollie Hayes, Image, Anti-Trump demonstration LondonIllustration reportage by Ollie Hayes Demonstrators with statue of Winston Churchill, Parliament Square, London Demonstrators with small Trump Baby balloon, near Parliament Square, London Demonstrator with flag of the European Union, Regent Street, London Young woman with statue of activist and suffragist Millicent Fawcett Parliament Square, London Demonstrators at the Bring the Noise march, Regent…
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A Year Later
By Brit Barnhouse What you’re eating isn’t healthy. Do you see it? You always said the Holy Trifecta of impolite conversation was money, religion, and politics, and I ate it up until I starved on lack of substance. Do you see that you’re withering too? I’m not asking for atonement, as if mistakes could…