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New Jersey teacher and poet, Carol Smith explains the hazards of racist content, subtle, accidental, sometimes deliberate.

South Dakota poet Michelle Morin takes a super-long view of climate change, with or without us.

Saturday May 4 the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) honors the memory of the US volunteers of the Spanish Civil War by awarding the ALBA-Puffin Human Rights Award to “18by Vote.”

It’s the Idea of Spring and poet Eve Sutton has been reminding us that climate change has been going on for a long time. It is no joke!

Marking the anniversary of his death (April 23, 1993), Cesar Chavez continues to inspire support for immigrant farm workers’ rights around the country.

A long-lost elegy remains a tribute to an American volunteer in the Spanish Civil War.

San Francisco poet Beau Beausoleil writes a poem each day during the current war in Gaza.

Poet W.D. Ehrhart makes a riff off 13 blackbirds, in hopes of you all doing the right thing in November.

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach knows more than a thing or two about Ukraine wars, way more to mark the passage of its second anniversary.