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Helen Benedict: Two Different Wars, Two Different Presidents, But the Same Lies

Weapons that don’t exist. Threats that aren’t real. Freedom for women. Total victory in only a few weeks. All this we heard in 2003 and are hearing again now.

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James Crews: It’s Good to Be Here,

I say out loud, to give the words
the physical presence they deserve
in the warm bakery with us, this place
we’ve been coming for years now.

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Will Glovinsky: Basic income’s appeal today is similar to its roots in 18th‑century England – it’s a way to compensate people for a common good taken for private gain

The rich who control AI are getting richer. Other people’s fortunes are in decline. To prevent mass hunger and political chaos, we will need a new system: a basic guaranteed income.

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Penelope Moffet: Simple As / Inexplicable / Moondust 

I want rescue
but also wonder
what I’ll see
if I stay out to dawn.

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Sean Sexton: No cause to count on mercies of the Earth

Yet a heifer finds a hollow,
penumbra of shade where the cold
couldn’t reach. She forages there
a little while, prospers.

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Christine Rhein: Poem for Lisel Mueller

I’ve turned toward dream again, endless steps,
sky without voice, as though the music of birds,
or my mother singing, never happened.

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Marianne Dhenin: Nurses Forge Alliances to Protect Patients From Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

“The idea was to build a rapid response team that is specific for the hospital.”

April 7, 2026 · 7 Comments

Eric Ross: Forever War (Yet Again!)

The Price of Empire and the Costs of War on Iran

April 6, 2026 · 6 Comments

Rose Mary Boehm: The Matthew Passion

How I once cried with the crucified Christ,
how I suffered the agonized night of Gethsemane,
how I waved that palm leaf,
how I felt the betrayal of Judas
and the foreboding of the last supper.

April 5, 2026 · 37 Comments

William Butler Yeats: Easter, 1916

I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses.

April 5, 2026 · 17 Comments

Jodi Vandenberg-Daves: The Minneapolis protests recall a long lineage of women’s peace movements

We saw in Minneapolis what we’ve long seen in U.S. peace movements: Women bringing innovation, moral clarity, caregiving and an insistence on justice.

April 4, 2026 · 7 Comments

Jose Padua: What I Keep Coming Back To

watching her lean forward,
tilted like a bell about to ring,
to shake hands with the man
who always panhandled there

April 4, 2026 · 26 Comments

Stephen Prager: 100+ International Law Experts Say US Strikes on Iran Violate UN Charter, Could Be War Crimes

The US started a war despite “no imminent threat” from Iran and has since carried out widespread attacks against schools, hospitals, civilian homes, and energy facilities.

April 3, 2026 · 7 Comments

Elizabeth Bishop: A Cold Spring

Beneath the light, against your white front door,
the smallest moths, like Chinese fans,
flatten themselves, silver and silver-gilt
over pale yellow, orange, or gray.

April 3, 2026 · 23 Comments

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