TWO POEMS
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Michael H. Brownstein Image source: Odyssey ONE MONTH AND WE ARE ALREADY EXHAUSTED The eighteen wheeler tortoise stepped, jerked, fell ba...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Monday, February 27, 2017
ship of fools
ship of fools
THE SHIP OF FOOLS
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Darrell Petska In Plato's Republic a ship of fools sailed— can you see one now, just rounding the bend? Already the ship lists heavi...
Sunday, February 26, 2017
shotgun
shotgun
SELECTIVE MEMORY AS FUTURE TOPIC FOR AN ELEGY
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Lyndi Bell O'Laughlin The “good old days” induce a thin, waxy coating on the outermost cells of the lining of the throat, carry a sub...
uranium
uranium
WHAT T***P WAS REALLY SAYING
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Kathleen A. Lawrence Image by DonkeyHotey a word collage from T***p’s 2/15/17 press conference I’m not ranting and ravi...
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Saturday, February 25, 2017
warm weather
warm weather
FALSE SPRING (OR NOT)
Sean Lenon
3:00 AM
by Joan Colby Giraffes at the Brookfield (IL) Zoo enjoyed the unseasonably warm, spring-like weather on Saturday. — WLS , February 18, 2017....
poetry
poetry
THREE EGRETS
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Buff Whitman-Bradley As we stand outside the bank Holding signs To protest profiteering From the ravaging of our environment Three egrets...
Friday, February 24, 2017
witch trials
witch trials
ALTERNATIVE FACTS
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Nancy Iannucci Bridget Bishop’s tavern was a bump on a buggy ride from Salem Village to Salem Town
where the menfolk congregated like h...
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Wendy Taylor Carlisle
Wendy Taylor Carlisle
BORDER/NO BORDER
Sean Lenon
3:00 AM
by Wendy Taylor Carlisle A woman traveling alone with her infant, seeming to understand that she will be arrested, walks toward Canadian pol...
truth
truth
ACCOUNTABLE
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
Jim Hanson is a retired Senior Researcher at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale where he worked and taught in community development. H...
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
valentine
valentine
FOR LAWRENCE KING
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Danielle Shorr It is valentines day again Larry is putting on his black boots zipping them up smoothly, he knows a thing or two about co...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
ruggesd individualism
ruggesd individualism
THE NEW AMERICA: BRING YOUR OWN DEATH
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by George Salamon "As states have faced challenges to carrying out executions by lethal injections, various work-arounds and alternati...
Monday, February 20, 2017
women
women
MY QUESTIONS FOR ANY WOMAN WHO HAS ESCAPED FROM HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Sister Lou Ella Hickman Advertising campaigtn by Greg Wong for Restore NYC - Awareness for Sex-Trafficked Survivors In honor of Restore...
Sunday, February 19, 2017
shop
shop
SECURITY
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Joan Mazza Drawing by Tom Gauld for The New Yorker , January 10, 2017 In scary times, I have my ways to cope. I make art and distract mys...
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Saturday, February 18, 2017
warrior
warrior
THE WARRIOR'S GRAVE
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Alejandro Escudé This 3,500-Year-Old Greek Tomb Upended What We Thought We Knew About the Roots of Western Civilization: The recent disco...
Friday, February 17, 2017
unease
unease
THE DIVIDED STATE OF AMERICA
Sean Lenon
3:00 AM
by Anna M. Evans I wonder how they sleep at night, those folk who disagree with me. Although their views are driving current policy, the jok...
sonnet
sonnet
AMERICA 2017
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Edward Zuk An old, crass, sad, vindictive president; Congress a swamp its citizens abhor; A cabinet of the incompetent; The coasts and he...
Thursday, February 16, 2017
tax
tax
DEAR PAUL RYAN
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Jacqueline Jules Paul Ryan caricature by DonkeyHotey After you’ve carried out your promises to the American people, I hope you’ll come to...
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
USA
USA
IMMIGRANTS SPEAK TO THE NEW PRESIDENT
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Austin Alexis We flee poverty the way the U.S.A. will, at some point, seek escape from you. You are to us as a flaw is when it mars a $10...
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
tyrant
tyrant
POETS IN MOURNING
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Kate Carey We scoured the world, searching for bits that were not broken. We find everyone is broken and everyone is reaching for that bo...
Monday, February 13, 2017
weather
weather
THE FIRST THREE WEEKS OF THE FIRST HUNDRED DAYS
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Penelope Scambly Schott This is a factual fact. Day by day, it keeps on coming. Rain. Hail. The winds that brought branches crashing down...
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Wordsworth
Wordsworth
AGAINST THE NEED TO WRITE POEMS IN THE AGE OF T***P
Sean Lenon
3:00 AM
by Alan Walowitz Photo Illustration by Jackie Friedman | Images courtesy iStock, Saul Loeb-Pool/Getty Images via The Week In poems the facts...
poetry
poetry
THUMPED
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Peter Krass Caricature by DonkeyHotey We get up from bed, but can’t be awake. This must be a bad dream, a nightmare, though sunlight burn...
Saturday, February 11, 2017
swastika
swastika
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Devon Balwit Top photo: “How New Yorkers Deal With Swastikas on the Subway” by Gregory Locke, The Forward, February 5, 2017. Images coll...
Friday, February 10, 2017
Yahoo
Yahoo
GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE
Sean Lenon
5:05 PM
by Chris O’Carroll Confronted with new evidence of torture and mass hangings in one of his military prisons, Syrian President Bashar Assad ...
Standing Rock
Standing Rock
#LOVETRUMPSHATE
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Brian Glaser Levi Snyder-Allen dressed as a wolf when he joined his mother Diana at a North Dakota oil pipeline protest. The wolf is an e...
Thursday, February 9, 2017
trope
trope
PROSTITUTE
Sean Lenon
3:00 AM
an anagram poem by David Spicer For months I’ve watched Rose, not a woman of ill repute but a unique kind of poet, a smooth blonde who’s a...
working class
working class
BANANAS
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Scott C. Kaestner tired of writing about the t***p administration so today gonna’ write about… um hmm… let’s see… that’s it… bananas! ya’...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
streams
streams
SHE PERSISTS
Sean Lenon
4:35 PM
by Cally Conan-Davies Beyond my door is a stream I sit beside and consider the lastingness of things —rubber soles, for instance, and wooll...
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pride
WHEN WE TALK
Sean Lenon
3:00 AM
Michelle Marie was a blog correspondent for Stop Street Harassment and reader columnist for The News Tribune .
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman
WONDER WOMAN IS MAYBE A 5 AT BEST
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Daniel M. Shapiro The Orange Menace offers $10 million to “the man who invents the best device— THE best device—for grabbing a woman and ...
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Steve Bannon
Steve Bannon
THE BALLAD OF BRAVE SIR BANNON
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Arnold Snarb Bannon head caricature by Bill Sienkiewicz In the distant future, a decade from now, when our planet has ceased...
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Monday, February 6, 2017
William Aarnes
William Aarnes
THE NEW CURRICULUM
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by William Aarnes America First At dinner tonight our eighth-grader repeated how all the kids just love their Patrio...
Sunday, February 5, 2017
water
water
DAKOTA CLEARING
Sean Lenon
3:00 AM
by Peleg Held On February 1st, several water protectors established the "Last Child Camp" in exercise of the 1851 and 1868 Fort L...
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The New York Times
The New York Times
SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Jack Powers Washington was a sea of pink pussy hats Saturday and New York and Stamford and Chicago and LA while Anne and I sat...
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Saturday, February 4, 2017
Samantha Pious
Samantha Pious
THE GOVERNMENT
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Samantha Pious after a ballade by Christine de Pizan Where will outcasts comfort find —asylum-seekers, refugees— now the land we thought...
