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Michael Simms: Bob, I loved reading What’s Possible: New and Selected Poems, just released by Slant Books. It’s a true masterwork. One among many

Closing Time

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A Life-long Commitment to the Ordinary

Ragged Sky Poetry

The daily lies our leaders tell filter down to the boys shoving each other on the basketball court

Nobody in the lane, and nothing, nothing but blackberries

“当你回顾我们的历史，时间仿佛在燃烧，火焰从遥远的未来越来越接近现在。”

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Math doesn’t lie—people do. A buried NSA‑authorized audit protected wealthy pedophiles in the Epstein files and paved the way for this unelected, illegitimate regime.

We have two novels to review, but first a question - does the Book of Revelation need an update? Many of us would say no. To literal believers, the closing

One of the great features of friendship is how we egg each other on. My friend has goaded and dared and teased me into so much cold water at cold times of year… I can’t believe we&#8217…

The bulk of a season’s smothered wonder, My ninety-one days stitched under and under.

Why do humans prey on their own species?

AT&T is one of the top corporations powering and profiting from ICE’s violent deportation campaign. We need to make it clear to AT&T, and every other corporation profiting from the suffering of our i...

I was the kind of kid who shied away from fights, lost the ones I couldn’t avoid, but never cried or surrendered, tough enough to take whatever came

The Collective Trauma of America’s Twenty-First Century Wars

Dear one, you are not a flock of hummingbirds sunning themselves in a golden day, Nor a bad child nor a good one, just woman, sheathed in skin and wish

The great Woody Guthrie wrote this song many years ago. I changed some of the words to fit our times and I hope you’ll sing it when you’re marching. Because sometimes, people, sometimes…

I stepped close to hold her tail, as they told me to do, and Doc Lindsey, up to his armpit inside, started raking it out with his cupped hand

The Southern Poverty Law Center has existed for more than 50 years, founded as a legal advocacy organization in Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. They have been organizing against the Klan and...

One truth was shot while it sat in a café, sipping an Americano and writing its memoir. Another truth rose up on a stage and protested the swarm of lies that had descended on the town, clinging to …

Loud music does this, it wipes out the ego, leaving turbulent water and winding road, a landscape stripped of people and language- how clear the air becomes, how sharp the colors.

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The administration argues that it needs exemptions to the Endangered Species Act to extract more oil from the Gulf of Mexico when it’s already extracting record amounts.

The gray whales are going south: I see their fountains Rise from black sea: great dark bulks of hot blood Plowing the deep cold sea to their trysting-place