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(Photo by By Jonathan McIntosh [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons) By John Kaufman We in Wisconsin owe […]
[Editor’s Note: Satire Warning!!! T.S. Swanky is an imaginary conservative columnist who, in the spirit of the First […]
By Rumple Oxbridge (imaginary rhymer-in-residence) Without a witty lover sex is just a spasm, a reflex too clinical […]
“We used to pay for education But it don’t pay to graduate A thinker now. No jobs, anyhow. […]
By Rumple Oxbridge (The Pacific’s purely imaginary in-house rhymer) Breasting Men To get it off their chests some women bare their […]
Becoming Our Enemy Sometime we’ll have to risk Becoming our enemy. It will take some warming up, Eyes and […]
The Poem to End All Cruelty For many years she wanted to write a poem To end all […]
A Banished Sound by John Kaufman Banishment has this benefit: Art becomes your argument. You’re free To […]
There Is by John Kaufman There is injustice . . . There is tragedy . . […]
According to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll, 51% of Americans approve of the CIA’s “harsh interrogation” of […]
Today’s post comes to you via Guernica magazine and Indian poet, writer & scholar Manash Bhattacharjee. In his short essay, […]
By John Kaufman (Translated by Julia Dubnoff via The Divine Sappho) Some say an army of horsemen, some […]
Torture and war are intimately related. Torture is a subset of war: brutality directed at an individual and […]
[A few lines for these times from Langston Hughes.] Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— […]
Here are two poems by the 19th Century American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow who was, for the record, […]
American Life in Poetry: Column 505 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Stuart Kestenbaum is a Maine poet […]
(Here’s a link to a printed copy of Whittier’s poem, published in a newspaper called the Signal of Liberty […]
(This poem of mine first appeared in the last issue of Verse Wisconsin, Issue 113, in April 2014.) […]
Islamic State militants being driven out of #Kobane, Kurdish commander tells BBC http://t.co/JRe0aQuyYD pic.twitter.com/FdX6de7Fpa — BBC News (World) […]
Feeding the Birds By John Kaufman for W.S. Merwin Here in the city we try to remember […]
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