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Social movements need great art. They need it if only to make plain for themselves that success is not merely linear; that changing law is not the only way to [...]

I grew up in Omaha, the youngest in a large Catholic family. We belonged to the Jewish Community Center, where I took swimming lessons in its bleak and echoing indoor [...]

If you have ever thrown an elbow or slid cleats high. If you ever snapped back or punched first. If you have ever quietly stolen inconsequential things, small pieces of [...]

After the murder of Julius Caesar in Shakespeare's play, Brutus appeals to the charged, fearful crowd in a speech written in prose. He ends up getting his point across. People [...]

INCARNADINE By Mary Szybist Graywolf Press. 72p $15 WHAT I'VE STOLEN, WHAT I'VE EARNED By Sherman Alexie Hanging Loose Press. 160p $19 A WILDERNESS OF MONKEYS By David Kirby Hanging […]

In 'Driving Without Insurance' Charles Lobaito declares: 'Throw me in jail insurance companies/Make a killing on good drivers & rake/Them over the fat Santa Claus coals./$312 a month is too [...]

The original title of this year's Foley poetry contest winner was, 'After the Molt, the King of Crabs, Feeling Tender, Addresses the Folk.' On first reading, the poem seemed messy, [...]