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Clemency

Peter Neil Carroll Cultural Daily
There’s more than a little irony in Peter Carroll’s poem about a woman who has been imprisoned for over 20 years being “free to start over.”

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F Is for Fear

Heidi Seaborn Rattle
Poet Heidi Seaborn (a distinctive surname) envisions a death at sea by strangulation, though it didn’t quite happen that way.

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History Repeats Itself

W. D. Ehrhart
A poet sensitive to injustice, W.D. Ehrhart projects a “broken-hearted world without end.”

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It’s Different Now

Christopher Clauss Radical Teacher
“I just want to teach science,” says New Hampshire poet Christopher Clauss, but his responsibilities also range from the absurd to the dangerous.

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Our Constitution

Beau Beausoleil Intermitten Press
Three years after the murder of George Floyd on March 25 2020, San Francisco poet Beau Beausoleil offers a limited portfolio of 20 poems as homage and legacy.

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The Popular Vote

Star Black Popular Vote
What really do we mean by the “popular vote”? The poet Star Black sees the consequences of misunderstanding.

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Upon Voiding Pills

Lavinia Kumar New Verse News
Lavinia Kumar’s poetry protests the government’s repression of safe medical abortion.

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Simply Breathing

Beau Beausoleil Killing George Floyd
Three years after the murder of George Floyd on March 25 2020, San Francisco poet Beau Beausoleil offers a limited portfolio of 20 poems as homage and legacy. (More will follow in June.)

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