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Advocate’s Visa Delay Stirs Questions

Kerim Yildiz, a leading human rights advocate for the Kurdish people, was for two decades a frequent visitor to the United States. A British citizen living in London, he… More

After Meng Hao-jan

In winter I drink tea by the window / Stars shine through my reflection / Occasionally I go out and see if I might / Find another remote and… More

Banned Books Week Kicks Off Tomorrow!

Earlier this week, Reuters reported that a school district in Missouri agreed to lift its ban on Slaughterhouse-Five and Twenty Boy Summer, two books the district had completely banned… More

Visions of a Disaster

The reader embarks upon two journeys: in the first, we drive with protagonist and narrator Pablo from Spain to France as he pursues his girlfriend Teba, who is on… More

Four Poems from Salsa

God made the heaven and the earth and on the seventh day / Languid and no longer loving we drifted into the forest More

Lawsuit Challenging FISA Wiretaps Allowed to Proceed

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has twice now rejected the Obama Administration’s attempts to throw out a lawsuit challenging the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act (FISA) allowing… More

Ascension

blues poet stands / at a crossroads framed / in indigo light. / he reaches his hand around /to his left side, slits himself / open as if to… More