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  • For Summer: Poems by Latina/o/xs: Raina J. León

    July 7, 2020

    Art by Raffaele Monchiero León, age 23 months suspect by Raina J. León in the isolation room, there are dirt spots on the floor.  in laboring, as the contraction waves rise to peak pain…

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  • “Late November Afternoon, Hazman’s Field” [by Karl Elder]

    July 7, 2020

                    “Who is the third who walks always beside you?”– TS Eliot, "What the Thunder Said" A man in gray overallssteps out of the gray matter of the horizon.Snow whirs above the stalkslike angels of…

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  • Squibs 423-444: My Activism Lustrum [by Alan Ziegler]

    July 7, 2020

      423: In the early 60s, protesters march to “ban the bomb”; the bomb is banned (partially) with the 1963 Test Ban Treaty. Protesters march, sit-in, and are beaten in pursuit of equal rights; discrimination…

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  • “Don’t Come In” [by Angela Ball]

    July 6, 2020

    Don’t Come In          I prefer the sign “No Entry” to the one that says “No Exit.” – Stanislaus Lec If for you, women are toy carswhose wheels you strikeon the…

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  • Don Berger: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    July 5, 2020

                  photo by Peter Berger ___________________________________________________________________________________ Leaving the Tavern   How long should my morning be?  They've never known who I am but I don't feel time's gone…

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  • “You, Reader” [by Major Jackson]

    July 3, 2020

    So often I dream of the secrets of satellitesand so often I want the moose to stepfrom the shadows and reveal his transgressions,and so often I come to her bodyas though she were Lookout…

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