Pieces
A surprise turn at the end of Donna Pucciani’s poem, “Pieces,” will shock the reader to consider how sheer evil has eroded our society.
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Ideas To Postpone the End of the World
Speak Poetry
California poet Aileen Cassinetto, Laureate of San Mateo, brings ecopoetry to youth activists fighting to save the living planet Earth.
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Moving From Elegy to Ecstasy, a Poet Pushes Against the Canon
The New York Times
In this new collection, the author's second, the poet, writes reviewer Simonds, "eruditely sets out to unite the Western literary canon with its omissions and oppressions."
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Illicit
gargoyle, 74
Virginia-based Cynthia Atkins writes about some unexpected consequences of the world-wide brush with death.
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Kaddish
Esther Kamkar’s prayer for the dead addresses the vast universality of war’s human tragedy.
poetry
Kristallnacht in Tulsa
Mississippi poet Philip Kolin depicts the crushing of the Black community in Tulsa, OK one century ago.
poetry
Sensory Details
Radical Teacher
New York City poet Todd Friedman, a retired high school teacher, observes the silent censorship that aims to protect pupils from themselves or perhaps from the facts of life.
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Small Kindnesses
Healing the Divide
As plague years continue, California poet Danusha Laméris writes of “brief moments of exchange” that sustain hope and belief in what is holy.
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Blood on the Fog
East Bay Express
Tongo Eisen-Martin’s latest book of poems challenges whiteness and the status quo with a strong revolutionary practice.
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Afterglow
Spoon River Poetry Review
“We think what we can’t see can’t hurt us,” says poet Ann Hudson about environmental pollution. Think again.
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