Alison R. Parker: Mother of Heather Heyer urges action — “If I gotta give her up, we’re gonna make it count.”
In a poignant and rallying message, Susan Bro, the mother of Charlottesville victim Heather Heyer, spoke beautifully about her daughter’s life — and how all of us can honor her … Continue reading
Leonard Gontarek: National Security
Monday: Alphabet Soup. Tuesday: Alphabet Soup. Wednesday: Punctuation Soup. The sun cinches the edge of winter trees. Why this talk of seeing into your own nature? Huang … Continue reading
Jon Tribble: 38,000,000 Reasons
I had left the Colonel and his kitchen behind for good and was detoxing as a movie theater usher in the last of my senior year of high school, but … Continue reading
Kareem Tayyar: On Queshm Island, Iran
Last night I saw you in the Valley of Stars. “Ghost country”, you called it, As you floated through the rock formations like a prophet in love with the loss … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: The Dirty War
desaparecido it’s not the police you see Eduardo says fear the police you can’t sometimes you hear the missing sometimes you don’t they open their mouths and make that sound … Continue reading
Kareem Tayyar: James Baldwin
I try to imagine you on a night when the moon is full. When the woman you are with did not have to leave the house before you. When the … Continue reading
Michael Simms: Hammer
On East Carson Street, skinny white boys Slump in front of tattoo parlors Scratching their arms. Girls In short skirts take long pulls On cigs, stand in groups Smiling at … Continue reading
Video: Stylo G x Jacob Plant “Bike Engine”
. Directed by Keith Schofield, this short film is the strangest visual poem you will ever experience. . . Email subscribers may click on the title of this post to … Continue reading
Gary Margolis: Pancakes and Kabobs
Our town invites in three thousand refugees. We used to count ourselves in, our town of nine hundred fifty three. We’ll have to rent extra seats for them to … Continue reading
Arlene Weiner: Wordless
My mother’s magazines advised “togetherness,” advertised Simplicity patterns for matching mother-and-daughter dresses, asked “Can This Marriage Survive?” I found Popular Science, admired the clear lines and cheerful mien … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: It Ain’t Over
Some things are over before they’re over. A bad marriage. A bad war. It got so a squad would go out, call in checkpoints as if on the move, sit … Continue reading
Video: Never Again (a tribute to Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
. During the final stage of World War Two, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. … Continue reading
Patricia Youngblood: Two West Virginia Poems
five hundred mountains over 500 mountains in Appalachia have been leveled by mountaintop removal mining, more than 1,000 miles of streams poisoned and buried in mine waste . the … Continue reading
Jose Padua: Because Even in the Darkest of Days Revolution Is a Movement Towards the Light
On the same day in August 1967 when American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell was killed, my younger brother was born: one bad guy down, one good guy up … Continue reading
