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Ryan Eckes: memo for labor

you cannot separate the job from the house from the rent from the earth from the food from the healthcare from the water from the transit from the war from … Continue reading

July 19, 2025 · 8 Comments

David Kirby: Two Poems

Let us be like my friend Rick’s grandma,
who Rick remembers trotting alongside the car as his dad
drove him and his brother down the long driveway from
her house, tapping on a window until one of the boys
rolled it down so she could ask, “Did you get enough pie?

June 17, 2025 · 23 Comments

Barbara Hamby: New Orleans Dithyramb

And Satan said unto the Lord, “You have your work            
            and I have mine, but there is no sin the world 
cannot hold,” and the Lord, he laughed himself a big one

August 27, 2023 · 25 Comments

Baron Wormser: On Moral Grounds

One can be humbled into silence and one can be humbled into words. Or one can feel both—the silence that underlies the words.

June 25, 2023 · 6 Comments

Edward L Greenstein: When your principles are at stake, take inspiration from Job

The deity astonishingly salutes Job when he speaks his truth to the deity’s power.

October 2, 2022 · Leave a comment

Elizabeth Romero: My Real Resume

I want to know why the corporate mentality sucks so bad.

September 10, 2022 · 6 Comments

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