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News Poetry: “Belle Turnbull: Colorado’s Unsung Master”

Art Goodtimes -
Long-versed as we’ve been, deep-footed in pioneer doggerel, blind poet fancies & sing-song sentimentalities -- those Victorian staples of mining camp news- papers in post-statehood Colorado – it came...
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News Poetry: Puerto Rico, Preamble for an Elegy

Frank Coons -
Seems blue tarp ____is the new shade this season, ____and light comes battery and generator driven. What the wind stripped ____was patina of paradise and the skin beneath ____not...
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News Poetry: (Survivors)

Alyssa Oursler -
Language is like eating ice cream, with a fork.  I apologize to another person for forgetting their birthday  and wonder if it’s possible to forget something...
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News Poetry: A Different Sort of Eden

José A. Alcantara -
Sometimes a woman, to defend herself, or her cubs, will dress up as a bear, pluck, one by one, the twenty ribs of a man, and strap...
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News Poetry: Me Too

Jacqueline St Joan -
Me Too If you want to know         rage rags on women         like menstrual blues Sit down here and I’ll         wash...
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News Poetry: The Judas Horse

Frank Coons -
The Judas Horse In the forgotten acres of the American west, sun-splashed, alkaline places, stone-strewn and arid, there are pockets of wild horses living on miles and miles of miles and...
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News Poetry: Of Diesels and Subterfuge

Frank Coons -
Of Diesels and Subterfuge Ordinary Tuesday, meaning evil & good are pulling on different ends of the same serpent. I am hardly bothered by their charade anymore. I’ve got...
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News Poetry: Poetry Lesson after the Las Vegas Shooting

Elizabeth Oxley -
Do not write the word heart. Like every overused word, its meaning has bled out, the way snowflake, repeated, dissolves into sound. And thoughts becomes nothing but the tongue thudding against...
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News Poetry: Dear Congress

Valerie Szarek -
Dear Congress I never want to write another poem titled: again So I’m sending you a pen I never want to hear the cries the shattering bullets from an automatic...
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News Poetry: Undocumented?

Karen Douglass -
Every day wear sturdy shoes in case you need to run. Pack a small bag, keep it light and close. Sew money into the lining of your coat. Bid your...
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