Persistent Moon
Chicago poet Carol Kanter offers a poem of peace, an alternative to “rage…offense…”
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Requiem for a Safeway Employee
Based on a true story, Lita Kurth exposes the risk and dangers of an all-night job.
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Dear Human at the Edge of Time
Dear Human at the Edge of Time
Our poet Cassandra Bousquet pleads for the shrinking opportunities before us, reminding us that “the edge is not the end”—yet!
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Their Feet Cross the Threshold
California poet Esther Kamkar speaks about Immigrants, refugees, their perilous conditions In a world of displacement.
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The American Political Sestina
Rattle
Poet Alexandra Umlas uses the subtle form, a sestina, to convey the tenuous substance of American political poetry.
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Parade Rest
Slipstream
California poet Joseph Zaccardi reminds us that war veterans carry their burdens through their lifetimes.
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Before I Was a Gazan
Voices in the Air
The poet Naomi Shihab Nye expresses a child’s sense of helplessness, trapped by politics and war.
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The 10th-Century Master Chef Who Wrote Food Poetry
Atlas Obscura
Kushajim's verses offer a glimpse into the good life during the Islamic Golden Age.
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Holes
Among the many things the USA left behind in Vietnam, besides pride, remains safely underground.
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Our Revels
“And now we mourn the temperate days,” writes Chicago poet Donna Pucciani, as the news of weather is seldom good.
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