2019 – Headline Poetry & Press

12/31/201901/07/2020 by: Hokis, Senior Editor

Amplify the Children | We Are, by Spirit Moon

We are Thousands of stories interrupted We have wings to build Lives to live Love to experience You have brought that to a screaming …

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12/31/201901/02/2020 by: Lori Morgan Flood

BREAKING NEWS! Protesters broke into the guarded compound of the United States Embassy in Baghdad and lit fires inside to express their anger

In northeast Ohio, the snow is lightly
falling. My dogs watch from the bed.
I pour my spouse another cup of coffee,
mentioning this news.

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12/31/201901/10/2020 by: Hokis, Senior Editor

Erasure the Occupant #9 | We keep them in a certain place, by Erin Russell

Original text, Donald Trump “God is the Ultimate.” We accept all Erasure the Occupant submissions. Visit our submission page for details.

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12/30/201912/30/2019 by: Hokis, Senior Editor

Erasure the Occupant #8 | Washing 2019, by Jennifer Edwards

I keep going back to the burning words in yellow: our country, us, oaths, America.

We accept all Erasure the Occupant submissions. Visit our submission page for details.

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12/29/201912/26/2019 by: Jodie Hare

Open arms

I can’t define the connection that I seek / I think I’ll know it when I see it / It will open its doors to …

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12/29/201912/26/2019 by: Mark Mayes

St Wulstan’s

This nature reserve was once an infirmary for American soldiers, then a TB sanatorium in the fifties, finally a psychiatric unit from sixty-one until asylum …

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12/29/201912/28/2019 by: David O'Nan

The War is Like Honey in Holiday Lights

This poem I wrote on Tuesday December 12th, 2019. It is a prompt response to the Christmas classic “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” by …

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12/29/201912/26/2019 by: Frank G. Karioris

BREAKING NEWS! From trees to streets

Bulletproof-vested men carry canes they use to smash into others in t-shirts & hands up in the so-called largest democracy where people are made …

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12/29/201912/29/2019 by: Robbie Calzonetti

Blackened Wildfire is Our Bloody Destiny

Part 1, Falling Phoenix Hear me like a siren in the night Fear me like the silence in the light Sear me red as …

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12/29/201912/22/2019 by: Mercury Marvin Sunderland

Key to Home, visual art

This piece addresses the history of trans people and one example of how we have historically been seen as sacred.

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12/29/201912/18/2019 by: Hokis, Senior Editor

told-to-be-Truth | Editorial

image and inspiration: “The Day Jeffrey Epstein Told Me He Had Dirt on Powerful People,” by James B. Stewart. New York Times, August 12, 2019.

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12/29/201912/28/2019 by: Angela Braru

Two Loaves

Between two loaves diesA toyish tomato sliceThe ketchup couldn’t sufficeSo I was killed thrice. Loud is your empty voiceYou left me with no choiceSo I …

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