Monthly Archives: March 2017

‘Four notes for an essay,’ by Robert Bohm

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March 31, 2017 by author

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Victor D. Infante

Four notes for an essay
by Robert Bohm

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Leni Riefenstahl’s documentaries were created to be viewed by an audience in closed theaters.

Hitler’s mass-rally appearances were constructs of words, military symbols, architectural backgrounds and nationalistic … Continue reading→

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Five Poems by Simon Perchik

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March 25, 2017 by author

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Victor D. Infante

Five Untitled Poems
by Simon Perchik

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You reach in as if this rock
is still beating :each gust
returned the way its shadow

cooled between touching down
and the darkness that would become
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‘What Matters,’ by Rushelle Frazier

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March 23, 2017 by author

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Victor D. Infante

What Matters
By Rushelle Frazier

If five people are shot outside a police station, does it make a sound?

Can you hear it over cries for justice
in the streets?

If a Black church is shot up … Continue reading→

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‘Walt Whitman and the Weather Report,’ by Laurinda Lind

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March 18, 2017 by author

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Victor D. Infante

Walt Whitman and the Weather Report
(After Robinson Jeffers)
By Laurinda Lind

Walt
in the twenty-first century
shakes the acorns from his beard
and lumbers forth to nourish
himself upon the air

Journalists ask … Continue reading→

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Four Poems by Alan Chazaro

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March 14, 2017 by author

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Victor D. Infante

Border Semantics
By Alan Chazaro

Human Tsunami is a phrase used by politicians to explain a wave of refugees
fleeing one
country’s coast for another. It’s a sudden crash of corpses in San Francisco; a crest
… Continue reading→

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