Writing is an act of resistance
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Administration Rumination
By Kathy Douglas I step over the cracks trying not to break my mother’s back while news accelerates to sideshow with Prez T as the bearded lady and Melania in the wrong place, wrong time. Time starts to taste like wormwood and rue, sour herb of grace, and climate change parodies itself in debates over…
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Just a Test?
By Rick Blum Rennh rennh rennh rudely interrupted Nora Jones, causing my stomach to clench like a sprung trap – something that hadn’t happened since Susan Soloway and I were sent to her basement while a siren blared at the fire station a few miles from our otherwise tranquil neighborhood. [This was the late…
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A Shithole Is
Narrative nonfiction, William C. Anderson, Donald Trump shithole, As Black as Resistance, climate crisisBy William C. Anderson A shithole is an astronomically wealthy nation that refuses to provide healthcare for all people. A shithole is an astronomically wealthy nation that refuses to guarantee access to clean drinking water and heating for schools in the winter. A shithole is a nation that has enough wealth to end poverty,…
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Who We Are
By Elisabeth Horan Worrying scared ashamed embarrassed angry sexualized objectified demonized Fat disgusting too thin too woman Lesbians gays fags hags Sluts pussies African American Latinas/os Hispanics Indians Native Americans Refugees Syrians Yemenis Afghanis Iraqis Sudanese Famine war death Ignore / Ignorance…
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Trigger Warning: An Exorcism for Las Vegas
Las Vegas mass shooting, cinematographer Adam Jiang, slam poetry, mass shooting, Las Vegas shooting, Sheriff Joseph Lombardo, Stephen Paddock, Video, Alexander McCoyA performance poem by Alexander McCoy Performed by Alexander McCoy Cinematography and editing by Adam Jiang Alexander McCoy is three years out of Clark University where he earned a BFA in theater, and where he got his start as a writer and slam poetry performer. He has since moved to Boston where he makes a…
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Donald Trump Probably Doesn’t Know What a Pantoum Is
By Eve Lyons Yes we can HOPE Love trumps hate We are all immigrants. HOPE Arab translators risk their lives for our soldiers We are all immigrants Promised visas, then denied. Arab translators risk their lives Muslims demonized Promises made, then broken Transgender women demonized Muslims are most at risk under the Islamic State We…
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Breakfast with Santa
By Abby E. Murray Santa arrives at the chemical bay on Joint Base Lewis McChord in a Stryker, 8AM sharp on Saturday, Colonel’s orders, free of charge. Santa has an Alabama twang. Santa says he’d like to make a quick announcement, his voice ringing in rented speakers that broadcast Christmas carols as well as the…
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The Wall
A Poster by Tomaso Marcolla Tomaso Marcolla was born in 1964, in Trento, Italy, where he currently lives and creates. Graduated from the Art Institute of Trento, he began work as a graphic designer in 1985. He began to experiment his passion for art with watercolors, “applying them on non-traditional backgrounds, from Japanese paper to…
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Evidence-Based
A Poem Against Tyranny By Margarita Engle When words are banned by a president who imagines that limiting language is his entitlement, all poets must use our vulnerable freedom of speech before we lose it the way transgender people can lose rights, the White House has lost diversity, and any fetus might lose hope…