Through Song? Leaflets Falling From the Sky?
By Moira Roth. "How will these children, when they grow up, / Hear news about the world?" …
Locker Room
Who haunts the ghost? Who walks the dog? Who mocks the turtle? Who listens to a log? Live by the penis, etc. Shivering in Utopia. Slow smoking October sky. Pave the road with lyres. Orpheus sleeping with one eye weeping. Who would trap a fowl? A special suckerfice. Anyway, I love you. Grab ’em by the antenna.… …
After Attica: Found Poems on Prison Labor
Section 1 Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except for a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to its jurisdiction. …
How Dry Are His Lips That Water Floods Him in Nightmares
By Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes. "The desert devours everything, even the expectation that it devours everything." …
Hung Lyres for Mohamedou Ould Slahi [AUDIO]
By Philip Metres. A poem for the Guantanamo detainee who wrote a book about his torture, Mohamedou Ould Slahi. …
Woman Mourning Son [AUDIO]
By Philip Metres. A woman in Iraq mourns her son, caught in the crosshairs of an F-16. …
No Man Left Behind (Minutes Without A Veteran Suicide: 65)
By Abigail Carl-Klassen. The impacts of war go deep, to a battleground of the mind. …
I always came to this café, then run by artists and anarchists, to read The New York Times
By Moira Roth. Reading the Times, ruminating on a lifetime of changing history. …