Centering
Pedestal
The Canadian poet Lynne Knight adds a feminist/ecological turn to Copernicus’s classical paradigm shift about the earth circling the sun.
poetry
Callie Barr’s Black Bottom
Georgia Review
The identity of an African American woman Callie, who was William Faulkner’s maid, is seen from different perspectives in Malcolm Tariq’s poem.
poetry
Viet Nam is Still With Us
California poet Buff Whitman-Bradley reminds us that some wars never end.
poetry
Corpse of the Revolution
The great exiled Persian poet Majid Naficy exposes the continuing pain of Iranian people.
Mark Zuckerberg and I
Rattle
“I’ve become obsessed,” writes the poet Branden Walsh, “with trying to understand the compulsions and sickness of a society that believes billionaires are a healthy/natural component of civilization.” He tries here to humanize just one.
poetry
The Father of Our Country
Southern Review
With tongue in cheek, Kim Roberts explores the patriarchal origins of our Thanksgiving holiday.
poetry
Here nor There
Adroit Journal
The poet Clint Smith, born and raised in New Orleans, writes from a wistful perspective of the city “kept from becoming.”
poetry
Redlining
Steel Toe Review
The Alabama-based poet Ashley M. Jones has a thing or two to say about “redlining” (aka housing discrimination).
poetry
CNN Report: Rise in Sexual Assault, Reprisals in the Military (2016)
As You Were: The Military Review
Poet and Army veteran Karen Skolfield sees sexual assault in the military that “no one takes…seriously.”
poetry
The Burying Ground
Weight of Bodily Touches
An encounter with the mutilated statue of a freed slave leads the California poet Joseph Zaccardi to consider the names of those left nameless.
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