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Michigan poet Ryan McCarty witnesses the shock of pepper spray from an unfeeling cop doing his job.

The poets says doomsday: climate heat is serious business, coming sooner than you think.

California poet Alison Luterman wants to know why two antiques are running for the presidency while the talent of competent women is ignored, and it’s no joke.

Poet Ehrhart questions how our Declaration of Independence can be true, even as the nation moved toward democracy, perhaps a warning that Constitutional originalism is equally absurd.

What the Garden Bodes, poet Carol Kanter implies, is not about flowers alone but about the political seasons in the run-up to the coming elections.

California poet Teresa Pham-Carsillo opens the reader to summertime; show some gratitude!

Enslavers typically insisted that Africans lacked "civilization," culture, religion until scholars like P. Sterling Stuckey showed beyond doubt the rich complexity --and survival-- of African traditions among African Americans.

Poet Sam Friedman brings us back to the walls around Gaza before the after.

For California poet Joe Zaccardi our holiday of memory brings back wartime scenes of flying and hope of rescue.

The grief of today’s wars, North Carolina poet Joanne Durham reminds us, falls heaviest on the children of the victims.