What the Garden Bodes
What the Garden Bodes, poet Carol Kanter implies, is not about flowers alone but about the political seasons in the run-up to the coming elections.
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Sweet Rain
Catamaran Literary Reader
California poet Teresa Pham-Carsillo opens the reader to summertime; show some gratitude!
poetry
Juneteenth
Enslavers typically insisted that Africans lacked "civilization," culture, religion until scholars like P. Sterling Stuckey showed beyond doubt the rich complexity --and survival-- of African traditions among African Americans.
poetry
Before the Gaza Genocide: Thoughts on Hersey’s the Wall
Poet Sam Friedman brings us back to the walls around Gaza before the after.
poetry
Memorial Day
For California poet Joe Zaccardi our holiday of memory brings back wartime scenes of flying and hope of rescue.
books
Review: White Terror; Black Trauma: Resistance Poems About Black History
Louisiana Literature
One of the recurring themes of the collection: the ways in which the scars caused by slavery and other forms of racial violence in America linger, influencing and echoing future events within a chronology of traumas.
poetry
Becoming Educated
Vox Populi
The grief of today’s wars, North Carolina poet Joanne Durham reminds us, falls heaviest on the children of the victims.
poetry
Safe Space
Radical Teacher
New Jersey teacher and poet, Carol Smith explains the hazards of racist content, subtle, accidental, sometimes deliberate.
poetry
Undone
Canary Literary Review
South Dakota poet Michelle Morin takes a super-long view of climate change, with or without us.
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Evelyn Hutchins
Sketches From Spain: Homage to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Saturday May 4 the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) honors the memory of the US volunteers of the Spanish Civil War by awarding the ALBA-Puffin Human Rights Award to “18by Vote.”
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