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Tag: News Poetry
News Poetry: Missing at the Table
In a time of national crisis, what our country really needs is a good poem.
—Herbert Hoover
This is the time when we must say...
News Poetry: Waking Dry
I woke up this morning
with a dry throat
& words of a poem about a dead river
rattling around in the bones of my skull-
word seeds,...
News Poetry: The Good Negro
Editor’s Note: Dr. Gregory Diggs wrote this poem in April 2015 when nationwide Black Lives Matter protests were occurring following the death of Freddie Gray...
News Poetry: A Dream Ends
I drop my tool belt loaded with hammer, nails, tape measure, my family’s picture
at Christmas. As I am shuffled to the car images come...
News Poetry: On the Declining Value of the Dollar
One hundred, becomes ninety-eight,
becomes eighty-two, becomes sixty-one,
and so on. A corpse dripping blood
is still a corpse. Though if you gather
the drippings, you can make...
News Poetry: Mirror Words
A new year starts
appearing as a blank slate
but its history is already written
in the dust of treaties,
the land-mine refuse of war,
the increased opulence of...
News Poetry: Upon Learning that Butterflies Existed Sixty Million Years...
We must now amend our theories of desire,
our understanding of what transforms
flesh so that it may feed on the nectar
hidden deep within the recesses...
News Poetry: Homeless at 7th and Santa Fe
1.
Black plastic bag, no tote, no backpack
One pair of shoes, no socks, no laces
Plenty of sunshine today, no raincoat
One glove, one cold, bare hand
Toothache,...
News Poetry: The Eye of the Beholder
The one on the left, with the pink backpack,
carrying the C-4, is wearing a headset
under that checked yellow scarf,
receiving final instructions.
The one on the...
News Poetry: Made in America
You have the right to bear arms
to bear poverty
to bear discrimination.
You have the right to assemble
in free-speech zones
behind well-marked chain link fences.
You have the...