Nancy Pelosi tore up Trump's Speech
San Francisco Poet Beau Beausoleil answers the mysterious question, why did Nancy Pelosi tear up the State of the Union speech?
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A non-binary person walked by
Pedestal Magazine
The southern California poet Gail Wronsky writes with pride (and pleasure and dignity) about her child who no longer passes as a binary daughter.
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To Combat Antisemitism, Write a Villanelle
Rattle
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach wrote this poem in response to the presidential executive order changing the status of “Jew” from a religion or ethnicity to a nationality.
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Centering
Pedestal Magazine
The Canadian poet Lynne Knight adds a feminist/ecological turn to Copernicus’s classical paradigm shift about the earth circling the sun.
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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.
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Viet Nam is Still With Us
California poet Buff Whitman-Bradley reminds us that some wars never end.
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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.
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Here nor There
The Adroit Journal
The poet Clint Smith, born and raised in New Orleans, writes from a wistful perspective of the city “kept from becoming.”
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