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Bullets

Terry Adams Portside
Poet Terry Adams relates how a sensitive child might learn about the intricate relationship between bullets and death.

Peter N. Carroll 1943–2024

Sebastiaan Faber ALBA - The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives
Peter N. Carroll, a respected and prolific writer, poet, and US historian, died after a short illness on September 16, surrounded by his family. He was 80. He was one of the key individuals involved in founding the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives.

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Counting the Dead

Susan Cossette New Verse News
Minnesota poet Susan Cossette addresses the ultimate misogyny—“Faceless, nameless shadows…/Now, we matter more in death.”

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Sermon on the Mount 2024

Susan Cossette
As Minnesota poet Susan Cossette reminds us, watch out for prophets!

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Laughter

Joanne Durham New Verse News
“You can tell a lot by a laugh,” said a certain Republican politician, and a laugh may set you free!

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Echoes From the Odyssey

Oksana Maksymchuk Verse Daily
“War is warm this year,” writes the poet Oksana Maksymchuk, violence spilling over international borders, stinging with no end in sight.

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Unsteady Topography

Oksana Maksymchuk Pleiades
As wars go on, writes the Ukrainian-American poet Oksana Maksymchuk, civilians find moments of joy, but then….

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My California

Beau Beausoleil
For the poet Beau Beausoleil, the war in Gaza drags on, no end in sight and distance offers no clear refuge.

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Voyage to Outer Space

William Trowbridge Birmingham Poetry Review
Midwest poet William Trowbridge has a good eye for bargain real estate, perhaps a good reason to stay on Earth.
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