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News Poetry: Missing at the Table

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - March 13, 2018

In a time of national crisis, what our country really needs is a good poem. —Herbert Hoover This is the time when we must say...

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News Poetry: Waking Dry

Terra Rafael - March 8, 2018

I woke up this morning with a dry throat & words of a poem about a dead river rattling around in the bones of my skull- word seeds,...

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News Poetry: The Good Negro

Dr. Gregory Diggs - March 2, 2018

Editor’s Note: Dr. Gregory Diggs wrote this poem in April 2015 when nationwide Black Lives Matter protests were occurring following the death of Freddie Gray...

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News Poetry: A Dream Ends

Karen Betstadt - February 14, 2018

I drop my tool belt loaded with hammer, nails, tape measure, my family’s picture at Christmas. As I am shuffled to the car images come...

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News Poetry: On the Declining Value of the Dollar

José A. Alcantara - February 13, 2018

One hundred, becomes ninety-eight, becomes eighty-two, becomes sixty-one, and so on. A corpse dripping blood is still a corpse. Though if you gather the drippings, you can make...

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News Poetry: Mirror Words

Doann Houghton-Alico - January 25, 2018

A new year starts appearing as a blank slate but its history is already written in the dust of treaties, the land-mine refuse of war, the increased opulence of...

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News Poetry: Upon Learning that Butterflies Existed Sixty Million Years...

José A. Alcantara - January 19, 2018

We must now amend our theories of desire, our understanding of what transforms flesh so that it may feed on the nectar hidden deep within the recesses...

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News Poetry: Homeless at 7th and Santa Fe

Karen Douglass - January 18, 2018

1. Black plastic bag, no tote, no backpack One pair of shoes, no socks, no laces Plenty of sunshine today, no raincoat One glove, one cold, bare hand Toothache,...

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News Poetry: The Eye of the Beholder

José A. Alcantara - January 9, 2018

The one on the left, with the pink backpack, carrying the C-4, is wearing a headset under that checked yellow scarf, receiving final instructions. The one on the...

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News Poetry: Made in America

José A. Alcantara - December 29, 2017

You have the right to bear arms to bear poverty to bear discrimination. You have the right to assemble in free-speech zones behind well-marked chain link fences. You have the...

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