Vox Populi

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Abriel Louise Young: Calling on Friends Across the Veil to Help Us Change History

What is the deepest loss that you have suffered? Have you succeeded in changing yourself to wine? If so, please report back.

October 7, 2024 · 5 Comments

Nidia Hernández: Río Turbio translated by Rowena Hill

I stopped in front of
the silence of all that distance
of my country being erased

October 2, 2024 · 7 Comments

Abby Zimet: Wearin’ Yesterday’s Misfortunes Like A Smile

He’s a poet he’s a picker he’s a prophet he’s a pusher
He’s a pilgrim and a preacher and a problem when he’s stoned
He’s a walking contradiction partly truth and partly fiction
Taking every wrong direction on his lonely way back home

October 1, 2024 · 11 Comments

Adam Bittleston: September

Into the ripening
Of earth’s great gifts
The mists of autumn
Begin to be woven.

September 29, 2024 · 9 Comments

Vanessa Chakour: My Innate Connection to Stolen Land

When people are distanced from land, they lose the intimate knowledge necessary to be effective stewards.

September 29, 2024 · 4 Comments

BBC: Kamala Harris’s Platform

Ms Harris released a detailed policy platform in early September offering voters a look at what a Harris-Walz administration might look like.

September 26, 2024 · 6 Comments

Richard Hoffman: Mourning Gaza

What does the pale infant turning to dust
in the gray light deep in the powdery rubble know
of the torn hands of her parents digging to find her?

September 24, 2024 · 15 Comments

Carmel Mawle: The Calisia

When Mama and Baba pulled us from under their bed, we stood where our wall had been and looked over the smoking city.

September 24, 2024 · 4 Comments

Michael Simms: Banned!

Vox Populi is not alone in experiencing censorship from Facebook which has often been accused of blocking messages critical of Israel and supportive of Palestine. 

September 22, 2024 · 63 Comments

Betsy Sholl: Helium

Oh, sweet dream,
stay with lovers afloat and doe-eyed donkeys,
don’t let the wind shift to newsclips of burnt
steeples, smoldering hospitals and schools.

September 21, 2024 · 16 Comments

Brett Wilkins: ‘We Are All Culpable’: Matt Nelson Self-Immolates to Protest Israel’s Gaza Onslaught

In a video, Nelson said he would set himself ablaze “to pressure Israel to end the genocide in Gaza.”

September 17, 2024 · 4 Comments

Alfred Corn: Instagram posts of Dr. Ali Tahrawi

Tired as if we were dead and lived again and suffered all kinds of pains and died again and again every day, in this hell of life, as if this is it, forever, as if this genocide would never end, and as if death is the only way out!

September 16, 2024 · 20 Comments

Charles Davidson: Donald Trump and an Insider’s View of Nazi Germany

IT WAS THE LATE 1930s IN GERMANY. Adolf Hitler had ascended to the chancellorship of the Third Reich in 1933.

September 15, 2024 · 19 Comments

Pablo Otavalo: Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

cutthroat, villain, body carved in light cut through a valley of darkness the gods and us and saints sickly and angry and Christ himself a body. Vagrant your thoughts and … Continue reading

September 15, 2024 · Leave a comment

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