F Is for Fear
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
A poet sensitive to injustice, W.D. Ehrhart projects a “broken-hearted world without end.”
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It’s Different Now
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.
poetry
Our Constitution
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.
poetry
The Popular Vote
Popular Vote
What really do we mean by the “popular vote”? The poet Star Black sees the consequences of misunderstanding.
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Amanda Gorman ‘Gutted’ After Florida School Bans Biden Inauguration Poem
The Guardian
Poet Amanda Gorman, 25, vows to fight back after single complaint, which wrongly ascribed The Hill We Climb to Oprah Winfrey, prompts removal.
poetry
Upon Voiding Pills
New Verse News
Lavinia Kumar’s poetry protests the government’s repression of safe medical abortion.
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Simply Breathing
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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Reader Comments: GOP Defends Sex Offender; Debt Crisis; Child Labor Laws, Population Decline; Yes, I Am Latina. And No, I Am Not Mexican -An Exchange; Vietnam 50 Years Later; Charlene Mitchell Memorial Livestream Link; Yuri Kochiyama; more
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Minneapolis
This Land, These People: The 50 States
Approaching the 3rd anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, the crisis of race relations remains contested ground, even in liberal states like Minnesota.
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