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Cartoon: “Cruzing to Coverage” by Khalil Bendib

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By Khalil Bendib via OtherWords.com  (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/)

April 8, 2015 Uncategorized

“Wisconsin is Open for Business” Lobbyists or Welcome to North Texas

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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 […]

April 7, 2015 Uncategorized

T.S. Swanky: In Defense of Religious Intolerance [Satire]

[Editor’s Note: Satire Warning!!!   T.S. Swanky is an imaginary conservative columnist who, in the spirit of the First […]

April 4, 2015 Satires

Rumple Oxbridge: “Wit is Eros”

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By Rumple Oxbridge (imaginary rhymer-in-residence)   Without a witty lover sex is just a spasm, a reflex too clinical […]

April 2, 2015 Literary

“The Chancellor of Football State U.”

“We used to pay for education But it don’t pay to graduate A thinker now. No jobs, anyhow. […]

December 31, 2014 Uncategorized

Rumple Oxbridge: “Breasting Men”

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By Rumple Oxbridge (The Pacific’s purely imaginary in-house rhymer) Breasting Men To get it off their chests some women bare their […]

December 30, 2014 feminism, Political Ditties by Rumple Oxbridge

“Becoming Our Enemy”

Becoming Our Enemy   Sometime we’ll have to risk Becoming our enemy. It will take some warming up, Eyes and […]

December 23, 2014 Uncategorized

“The Poem to End All Cruelty”

The Poem to End All Cruelty For many years she wanted to write a poem To end all […]

December 21, 2014 poems, Uncategorized

“A Banished Sound”

A Banished Sound by John Kaufman   Banishment has this benefit: Art becomes your argument. You’re free To […]

December 19, 2014 poems, Uncategorized

“There Is”

  There Is by John Kaufman   There is injustice . . . There is tragedy . . […]

December 17, 2014 poems, Uncategorized

New poll on torture avoids using the word “torture”

According to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll, 51% of Americans approve of the CIA’s “harsh interrogation” of […]

December 16, 2014 Uncategorized

Manash Bhattacharjee: How poetry & art express political commitment

Today’s post comes to you via Guernica magazine and Indian poet, writer & scholar Manash Bhattacharjee.  In his short essay, […]

December 15, 2014 Literary

Sappho on love, not war

By John Kaufman (Translated by Julia Dubnoff via The Divine Sappho) Some say an army of horsemen, some […]

December 12, 2014 Literary

The courage not to be brutal

Torture and war are intimately related. Torture is a subset of war: brutality directed at an individual and […]

December 11, 2014 Uncategorized

From “I, Too” by Langston Hughes

[A few lines for these times from Langston Hughes.] Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed—   […]

December 7, 2014 Literary

For the Season: Longfellow’s poems of peace

Here are two poems by the 19th Century American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow who was, for the record, […]

December 4, 2014 Literary, Uncategorized

“Prayer for Joy”: a poem by Stuart Kestenbaum via American Life in Poetry

American Life in Poetry: Column 505 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Stuart Kestenbaum is a Maine poet […]

November 28, 2014 Literary, Uncategorized

On Politics & Poetry

 (Here’s a link to a  printed copy of Whittier’s poem, published in a newspaper called the Signal of Liberty […]

November 25, 2014 Literary, Uncategorized

“What We Must Preserve”

(This poem of mine first appeared in the last issue of Verse Wisconsin, Issue 113, in April 2014.)   […]

November 20, 2014 Anti-Tech, poems

War as Spectator Sport

Islamic State militants being driven out of #Kobane, Kurdish commander tells BBC http://t.co/JRe0aQuyYD pic.twitter.com/FdX6de7Fpa — BBC News (World) […]

October 17, 2014 Uncategorized

Feeding the Birds: a poem

Feeding the Birds By John Kaufman for W.S. Merwin   Here in the city we try to remember […]

October 10, 2014 Uncategorized

American Life in Poetry Column 498 by Ted Kooser

  Welcome to American Life in Poetry. For information on permissions and usage, or to download a PDF […]

October 6, 2014 Literary, poems, Uncategorized

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