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Horizon

A giant copper moon flares on the lake in the early dark, and on the car radio, talk. Talk trying to chew despair. Talk about fear to hide ...
On May 12, 2019 / By Richard Hoffman
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Manal and Alaa

To open separate window, click button on upper right of comic display “Manal and Alaa: A Love Story” Copyright © 2015 by Lena Merhej. Published in Muqtatafat, a ...
On April 9, 2019 / By Lena Merhej
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A Can of Pinto Beans

Robbie Gamble: For the past several summers I have spent time on the Arizona/Mexico border, working with an organization that provides medical and material aid to migrants ...
On April 8, 2019 / By Robbie Gamble
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Marcuse on the MTA

To open separate window, click button on upper right of comic display “Marcuse on the MTA” is an excerpt from Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia: A Graphic Biography, ...
On March 17, 2019 / By Nick Thorkelson
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Paul Laurence Dunbar, Beyond the Mask

Paul Laurence Dunbar, Beyond the Mask, written and directed by Frederick Lewis He sang of love when earth was young, / And love itself was in its laze, ...
On March 17, 2019 / By Chris Hartman
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An Odyssey

Day like rain, a cast iron crow Furling its wings in thin emptiness My heavy body holds the wound Deep inside black iron cloud Raining down when the ...
On February 7, 2019 / By Kazim Ali

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Horizon

A giant copper moon flares on the lake in the early dark, and on the car radio, talk. Talk trying to chew despair. Talk about fear to hide ...
On May 12, 2019 / By Richard Hoffman
Poetry 1
A Can of Pinto Beans

Robbie Gamble: For the past several summers I have spent time on the Arizona/Mexico border, working with an organization that provides medical and material aid to migrants ...
On April 8, 2019 / By Robbie Gamble
Poetry 0
An Odyssey

Day like rain, a cast iron crow Furling its wings in thin emptiness My heavy body holds the wound Deep inside black iron cloud Raining down when the ...
On February 7, 2019 / By Kazim Ali

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An Awesome Gap

Around the corner, the lot opened up and the asphalt smoothed out. The rough patches disappeared and Patrick glided along, gaining speed as he headed for a concrete ...
On October 7, 2018 / By Virginia Pye
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The Asshole

He was not a very good person. He was, by many accounts, vile, impolite, crude, inappropriate, ignorant, insensitive, and offensive. He was a gifted asshole, a precocious prick, ...
On September 28, 2018 / By Vincent Yu
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Eyewitness

The eyewitness entered. He had no eyes. Unsteadily he made his way through the courtroom, groping the air with his hands. Blood ran from his eye-sockets, blood so ...
On August 2, 2018 / By Seno Gumira Ajidarma

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Marcuse on the MTA

To open separate window, click button on upper right of comic display “Marcuse on the MTA” is an excerpt from Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia: A Graphic Biography, ...
On March 17, 2019 / By Nick Thorkelson
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You Had Me at Beheading!
The Author of “Against Football” Responds to Selected Hate Mail

To open separate window, click button on upper right of display Copyright @ 2015 by Steve Almond. First published in The Rumpus, December 1, 2015. Reprinted with permission ...
On January 12, 2019 / By Steve Almond
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The War on Pagans

It’s the time of year for the “War on Christmas”. The war, supposedly a slight against Christianity, was most recently inspired by a book written by John Gibson ...
On December 22, 2018 / By S. Schirl Smith