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Mississippi poet Philip Kolin traces the history of enslavement since 1619, this extract from his new book White Terror, Black Trauma (Third World Press).

The poet C. Liegh McInnis pays homage to the great African American activist, Robert Moses who led the campaign for civil rights in 1960s Mississippi and later the Algebra Project committed to education equality.

As the ice melts at the global poles, Texas poet Everett Cruz laments our leaders plead for their votes at the polls but ignore the results.

Peter Carroll’s visit to Perry, Iowa gives no warning of sudden violence that occurred there this week, except for feelings of despair that might afflict a troubled young man with nowhere to go.

War remains headline news, as ever, perhaps distracting public attention from the Big Bang, so says poet Gerry Sloan.

Chicago poet Carol Kanter offers a poem of peace, an alternative to “rage…offense…”

Based on a true story, Lita Kurth exposes the risk and dangers of an all-night job.

Our poet Cassandra Bousquet pleads for the shrinking opportunities before us, reminding us that “the edge is not the end”—yet!

California poet Esther Kamkar speaks about Immigrants, refugees, their perilous conditions In a world of displacement.

Poet Alexandra Umlas uses the subtle form, a sestina, to convey the tenuous substance of American political poetry.