Requiem for a Safeway Employee
Based on a true story, Lita Kurth exposes the risk and dangers of an all-night job.
Dear Human at the Edge of Time
Dear Human at the Edge of Time
Our poet Cassandra Bousquet pleads for the shrinking opportunities before us, reminding us that “the edge is not the end”—yet!
Homeless America
Poet Philip Kolin depicts the plight of the homeless: “They give/American progress a bad name…”
Taking Sides
California Rabbi Irwin Keller chooses no sides in the wars but pleads for unconditional peace.
Their Feet Cross the Threshold
California poet Esther Kamkar speaks about Immigrants, refugees, their perilous conditions In a world of displacement.
The American Political Sestina
Rattle
Poet Alexandra Umlas uses the subtle form, a sestina, to convey the tenuous substance of American political poetry.
Parade Rest
Slipstream
California poet Joseph Zaccardi reminds us that war veterans carry their burdens through their lifetimes.
Water
Nimrod International Journal
Another bombing, writes Poet Melanie Tafejian, “Ten people died./ Seven of them children….” Another mistake.
Before I Was a Gazan
Voices in the Air
The poet Naomi Shihab Nye expresses a child’s sense of helplessness, trapped by politics and war.
Holes
Among the many things the USA left behind in Vietnam, besides pride, remains safely underground.
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