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The Lure of Socks on Warm Feet
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The Lure of Socks on Warm Feet

Issue 141: September 2023

The Lure of Socks on Warm Feet

By Editor| 2023-09-04T10:59:04-07:00 September 13th, 2023|Categories: Issue 141: September 2023|Tags: Poetry, climate change, climate justice, Amelia Díaz Ettinger, Puerto Rico, extreme weather, FEMA failure, Hurricane Maria 2017|

By Amelia Díaz Ettinger Never forget, September 20, 2017 and Maria In my La-Z-Boy I sit, a Puerto Rican queen, feet-up admiring my knitted socks. I made these socks by knit and purl. 5,746 miles away from you it is easy to say, I worship. —And oh! How I preach this veneration, the warmth of [...]

Islands of No Nation
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Islands of No Nation

Issue 139: 16 March 2023

Islands of No Nation

By Editor| 2023-03-11T12:09:32-08:00 March 15th, 2023|Categories: Issue 139: 16 March 2023|Tags: Poetry, Ada Ardére, Guam, U.S. colonialism, Puerto Rico, U.S. imperialism, American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana islands|

By Ada Ardére We give them our children to fight in jungles and deserts, we give them our taxes to pave their roads, we give them our land to build their businesses, we give them our coasts to moor their battleships, we give them our waters to test nuclear weapons, and we have received nothing. [...]