The levy I received a speeding ticket for going five over the limit while driving to Toronto; the ticket stated the punishment as being …
Weekly Feature | Nadir, by Ronnie Smith
An island made blind
by the earth’s curve,
deafened by technology.
Weekly Feature | Another Day in America, by Courtney LeBlanc
Once a man with a gun tucked into a side holster walked by my table. I was eating brunch, was mid-sip of my mimosa. …
Erasure the Occupant #8 | Washing 2019, by Jennifer Edwards
I keep going back to the burning words in yellow: our country, us, oaths, America.
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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 …
NEW SECTION! FLASHBACK
FLASHBACK: Looking back at the Occupant’s First Year
through brave and inspiring #political #poetry of Lee Lottner. We welcome her “Perfidy Report” archives to Headline Poetry & Press.
No Crime Here (Except for…)
by Alexander Manzoni, Regular Contributor Time passes on. The days are long, too long. Waiting for the hands of justice to move. Waiting for my government …
Reconstruct Woman | Erasure w/ sounds
What do we know about her? The woman, coded and used, looked closely to those who lived.
BREAKING NEWS! Merry Impeachmas
by Alexander Manzoni, Regular Contributor |
Santa’s got a present for you,
not a lump of coal dug out
from the bottom of his boots:
but a bag of subpoenas.













