Video: Snow Raven
In a spellbinding talk and performance, singer Snow Raven mimics the hoot of an owl, the grumble of a bear, the howl of a wolf and more.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: I Genitori Perduti
Souls transmigrated maybe
from Hudson’s shrouded shores
across all the silent years—
Which one’s my maybe mafioso father
Abby Zimet: Onward Christian Boot Camps
As a baleful Cabinet of Horrors coalesces, up next to run our vast military is “perfect Trump World monster” Pete Hegseth, a creepy, philandering, “inordinately unqualified” White Nationalist facing charges of drunken sexual assault.
Andrew Reginald Hairston: Sweet Potato Pie
Having gone public with your bisexuality the month prior — and blocking your parents and sister at the same time — the memories would have to suffice
Dr. Liz Theohariss, Shaailly Gupta Barnes: How to Survive Trump—America’s Nero
Lives and livelihoods will be saved, if at all, from below, rather than on high.
Daniel Hunter: 10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won
It’s important we squarely face Trump’s victory and what there is to do about it.
Video: Naomi Shihab Nye reads her poem Gate A-4
I heard an announcement:
“If anyone in the vicinity of Gate A-4 understands any Arabic, please
come to the gate immediately.”
Eva-Maria Simms: The Playbook of Dictatorship Redux
From my family stories and my readings of political philosophy and history, the following picture emerges, which shows the building blocks of a totalitarian dictatorship. I offer it here as a warning from a German immigrant to my fellow citizens in the United States.
Jeffrey Harrison: Stalinesque
We don’t recognize our own country,
and our words don’t carry more than ten feet,
but the snippets that can still be made out
are all about the Emperor Felonius.
Edwin Arlington Robinson: Eros Turannos
She fears him, and will always ask
What fated her to choose him
H.D: The Flowering of the Rod
O, give me burning blue
and brittle burnt sea-weed
above the tide-line,
as I stand, still unsatisfied,
under the long shadow-on-snow of the pine.
Majid Naficy: Ruthless Gods
I detest the world
Which has given its heart
To ruthless gods
Abby Zimet: Cosmic Jokesters Buy Cesspool of Hate-mongering Psychopath Who Is Not Taking It Well
We salute the supremely ironic sale of Alex Jones’ vicious Infowars – now bankrupt thanks to the $1.4 billion he owes Sandy Hook families for claiming the massacre of their children was a hoax – to the satirical wise-acres of The Onion, working with those families.
William Trowbridge: Packinghouseland, 1957
In the summer of my junior year in high school, I got a job in the hog-cut department at Cudahy Packing Company.
