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Even when April showers pour in California, as poet Diane Moomey reflects, the true issue is how long will the water last and for whom?

Where is Home, asks the young immigrant poet who is uprooted, transplanted, partly assimilated as he searches for a sturdy identity.

Is this the country where George Washington slept? Mississippi poet Philip C Kolin has his doubts.

The Kansas poet H. C. Palmer, a battalion surgeon in the American War in Vietnam, addresses the effects of trauma on our war veterans.

Approaching the 50th anniversary of MLK’s murder, California poet henry 7 reneau, jr., writes, “There’s a sickness in people”—Malice…Greed…Denial—“in opposition to…common sense.” Not too late to do something about it.

With current media celebrating the role of the soldier, US Army veteran/poet Roy J. Adams offers an ironic antidote.

Poet Dan Vera adds fine-tuned anti-imperial politics to everything you need to know about bananas—and banana republics—from A to Z.

How bad is bad? asks the poet Jennifer Michael Hecht, in this wrenching ballad of worse to worst.

Inspired by student outrage at the link between politicians and the National Rifle Association, the poet find hope in the no-longer-so-innocent next generation.

The Wall goes on, but as the El Paso poet Abigail Carl-Klassen announces: “We’re still here. In protest. In Pachanga. Fists raised.”