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Jill McDonough’s poem on the planes that followed and photographed the atomic bombs the U.S. dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan during World War II is a harrowing depiction of the justifications that follow mass destruction.
Posted on May 25, 2016
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He was a man of the cloth and a man of letters, but most of all, Berrigan was a man of peace. He was also, as it happened, the man whom Kurt Vonnegut went so far as to call “Jesus as a poet.”
Posted on May 1, 2016
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David Ray begins his powerful poem with a rumination on a photograph of an American airman hitting golf balls on an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf. The image was published in The New York Times in 2003.
Posted on Mar 31, 2016
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The topic of the day is authority figures: police, teachers, parents and correctional officers.
Posted on Mar 25, 2016
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Profound wisdom can come from unexpected places. The creative writing class at Homeboy Industries is one of them.
Posted on Mar 24, 2016
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How do we create a community of mutual kinship, love and respect? That is the goal of a gang-prevention program in Los Angeles.
Posted on Mar 23, 2016
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The nonprofit organization in Los Angeles provides hope for at-risk youths, former gang members and previously incarcerated men and women. Truthdig will be featuring writers from Homeboy Industries in a series called “Homeboy Creative.”
Posted on Mar 22, 2016
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Khairani Barokka’s poignant poem highlights how Western reports of casualties in the developing world, even when the dead in question are children, are often recorded with indifference toward the human lives lost.
Posted on Mar 2, 2016
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Hakim Bellamy, Albuquerque’s first poet laureate, writes a series of questions about reactions to the tennis star Serena Williams that will echo in your mind for days on end.
Posted on Feb 17, 2016
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Amy Uyematsu’s poem, inspired by Juan Felipe Herrera’s “Fuzzy Equations,” is a powerful litany of expressions that get to the heart of our modern age.
Posted on Feb 3, 2016
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