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Monday, March 13, 2017

PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE

by Thomas R. Smith Late afternoon sun on snow. Intense flare concentrated in the west, skimming cold shadows pooling below the dam. On the p...

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Texas

FUNERALS FOR FETUSES

Sean Lenon 2:00 AM

by Eliza Mimski This poster was created by Shepard Fairey who eight years ago made the iconic Obama poster that captured a period of HOPE in...

Friday, December 2, 2016

Super Bowl

HAMILTON STILL SOLD OUT ON THE GREAT WHITE WAY

Sean Lenon 2:00 AM

by Albert Haley "History is happening in Manhattan: Hamilton has set a record for the most money ever made in a single week by a Broad...

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TERRIFIED

by Marsha Owens Image adapted from Scott Brundage Illustration . Who are you? roared the Cyclops. I’m terrified , I whispered back. And wel...
A FRIEND BREAKS HIS RENAISSANCE SWORD ON A PAPAYA

by Kristina England Any fruit can hide the fierceness of its rinds. We should never believe the weapon invincible. Record low temperatures t...
GRAVE DIGGER

by Carolyn Gregory He digs his own grave, throwing in the bones of other dead men first— a femur and skull from a couple of immigrants climb...
PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE

by Thomas R. Smith Late afternoon sun on snow. Intense flare concentrated in the west, skimming cold shadows pooling below the dam. On the p...
IMMIGRANT

by Alan Catlin Does it matter? Now, here, today That they were grunts in Vietnam, her father, uncles, cousins and that she the niece, daught...
DREAMING

by Carol Alexander The dreams unspool like newsreel in the night. They patrol great rifts with somnambulist grace, afraid to wake. Winds sna...
EXAMPLE

by Salvador Díaz Mirón from his 1901 collection Lascas [ Stone Chippings ]; translation by Julie Steiner Iraqi children giggle at the bod...
JANUARY 13TH, 2017

by Marc Swan https://www.womensmarch.com In a short hop against convention, my wife and I were married on a Friday the 13th. Today a road tr...
SEED CORN MUST NOT BE GROUND

by Pamela Wynn Seed Corn Must Not Be Ground : A mother protecting her children, lithograph by Käthe Kollwitz, 1942. Image source: Spartacus ...
TODAY

by Laura Rodley For you, my grandchildren, I am saving pine needles in the forest. For you, my grandchildren I am hanging up my clothes, sav...