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One Nation, Indivisible
January 2019
Featuring Starhawk, Frances Lefkowitz, Edward Tick, and more.
January 2019Poetry
Stories We Keep To Ourselves
They gather in lodges, these unflinching, / gray-haired men in caps with unit insignias. / The meat loaf and gravy on styrofoam goes / mostly untouched.
December 2018Poetry
All The While The Women
Days & nights I carried two weapons everywhere. / I wore pockets of bullets / across my chest. I wasn’t / of age.
July 2018The Dog-Eared Page
The Gettysburg Address
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
December 2017
The Dog-Eared Page
For Eli Jacobson
There are few of us now, soon There will be none. We were comrades Together, we believed we Would see with our own eyes the new World where man was no longer Wolf to man, but men and women Were all brothers and lovers Together. We will not see it.November 2017
Poetry
Grief Runs Untamed
In one hand the exiles hold a bundle / with a blanket, medicine, and a comb; / in the other, a door handle. / They attach it to every mountain and wall, / hoping the handle will conjure the door / that will open and let them in.
November 2017Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
The Twelve-Hour Shift
I was home on fall break in my final year at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, and I needed money to pay tuition, so I was working a twelve-hour shift with my father at the ceiling-tile factory.
November 2017
One Nation, Indivisible
October 2017
Featuring Pramila Jayapal, Ralph Nader, Sister Helen Prejean, Sy Safransky, Tim Wise, and more.
October 2017Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Home From The War
I am waiting to turn left at an intersection. A driver cuts me off, we make eye contact, and I am caught in the endless loop of a memory I thought I had left behind eight years ago in Afghanistan. I begin to feel panicked.
October 2017
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
The Nesting Ground
After fifteen years in prison I was beginning to assume my life couldn’t get any more lopsided and annoying, but now some cruel functionary has started a war against the local swallows.
October 2017
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