San Francisco poet Beau Beausoleil reminds us that the war in Ukraine goes on, people are dying, all obscured by political shadows and dubious communications.
On Veterans Day, we honor Gerald Sloan’s poem, commissioned by a local symphony to be recited at a choral performance of Wilfred Owen's famous sonnet (see below).
A local land dispute between indigenous Native Americans and a sand and gravel business prompts California poet Amy Meier to plead for environmental justice.
Seeking explanations for the rise of the insurrectionist right, California poet Alison Luterman turns the story to what has been stolen from the old America and lost.
For all the news about the invasion of Ukraine, US observers scarcely know the price of war, but as San Francisco poet Beau Beausoleil writes, that won’t last forever.
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