Part 1, Falling Phoenix Hear me like a siren in the night Fear me like the silence in the light Sear me red as …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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!
Weekly Feature | Doloroso, by Gayle J. Greenlea
photo by Man Ray Somewhere the notes fell from our music — a dark indigo pooling around the polished sunlit surfaces of our instruments …
Capture of Thoughts
I capture thoughts as they come. May they entertain or educate someone. I don’t know why they keep saying that poetry is dead, …
Erasure the Occupant #4| So Much More than Trump by Heather Quinn
Heather Quinn is a poet living in San Francisco who loves the act of layering memory, imagination, images, the political & spiritual into her work. She often thinks of writing as collage-making.













