The War is Like Honey in Holiday Lights

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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12/29/201912/28/2019 by: Stapleton Nash

Tenants

It is tempting to think Of the heart as a one-bedroom apartment With room for only one tenant at a time. But truthfully …

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12/29/201912/28/2019 by: Lori Morgan Flood

Addiction

She can’t remember anything, Spanish guitar rest stop sand, British invasion – the clank clank clank of the gold door lock, a truck. She can’t …

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12/29/201912/28/2019 by: Cory Steel-Omeara

The American Rose Tint

A palette the mind fills; shadows bustling like daybreak saints in the street glow— On margins grey of dust, there is wood burning; rife smoke …

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12/28/201901/17/2020 by: Hokis, Senior Editor

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.

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12/28/201901/07/2020 by: Hokis, Senior Editor

Amplify the Children | Taken, by Spirit Moon

Project Amplify is a crowd-driven project to raise awareness of the conditions of child detention camps on the U.S. border through arts, music, & media. We truly believe that if the American public understands the scope & severity of the conditions we can create change. JOIN THEM!

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12/27/201912/27/2019 by: Hokis, Senior Editor