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    • Child of 9-11, a poem for Christina-Taylor Green
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    • BLOODSHED IN THE SAHARA: THE PLIGHT OF THE SAHRAWI
    • Sarah Palin's Resignation Speech (Edited for Clarity)
    • Is God a Homophobe?
    • Drats, Rejected Again! (the Bias Against Formal Poetry)
    • Richard Moore's Advice to Poets
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  • Featured Poets
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    • LINCOLN THE UNKNOWN
    • Oscar Wilde
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  • Holocaust/Nakba Poetry
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    • At Death's Door: a Story of Gaza
    • PEACE
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    • Dan Almagor
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    • Pope John Paul II
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    • Wladyslaw Szlengel: A Page from the Deportation Diary
    • Iqbal Tamimi
    • Takashi “Thomas” Tanemori
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  • Contemporary Poets
    • David Gwilym Anthony
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    • Janet Kenny
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    • Oliver Murray
    • Alfred Nicol
    • Jennifer Reeser
    • Jendi Reiter
    • Mike Snider
    • Harvey Stanbrough
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  • Foreign/Translation
    • Nadia Anjuman
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    • English Poetic Roots: a Brief History of Rhyme
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    • A Dram of Epigrams
    • Oscar Wilde Epigrams
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    • Rock Jukebox
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    • O, Terrible Angel
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    • Going Viral: Viral Poetry
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    • DARK POETRY
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    • How I Blew It At The New Yorker
    • by Richard Moore
    • A Sassy Poem about The New Yorker
    • by Zyskandar Jaimot
    • More Distant Recollections of the NYer
    • by T. Merrill
    • Michael R. Burch, in Arabic?
    • How the Hell Did I End Up Translating Other People's Poetry?
    • Featured Long Works
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    • (an attempt at definitions)
    • This Is Not a Manifesto
    • by Quincy Lehr
    • Regarding the Great Poetic Divide
    • by T. Merrill
    • Aints, Saints, Formalist Plaints
    • by Mike Burch
    • In Peace's Arms, Not War's
    • 9-11 Poetry
    • Flying the Flag on 9-11
    • Let Freedom Sing!
    • Grace Notes
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    • The Night the Veil Thinned
    • A Life
    • by Richard Moore
    • AFTER
    • by Sharron Rose
    • Heresy Hearsay
    • The Heretical Poets
    • Heretical Christmas Poems
    • Why I Left the Religious Right
    • Christian Mothers and the Cult of Hell
    • The Puritan National Conscience
    • by Joe Salemi
    • Joe Salemi, Mike's Salami, etc.
    • Shocking News: Hatred of God in Haiti!
    • The Gods: an Update
    • CONVICTION
    • The Poisonous Tomato
    • The Embarrassing Intolerance of God
    • The Popemobile and Other Equivocations
    • Rat Zingers Children
    • Infalli-BULL
    • The Trinity (an Update)
    • The Spiritual SasquatchMichael, Wonderful and Glorious
    • The Gospel of Michael
    • The Ballad of the Christmas Donkey, sung by Beth Burch
    • The Best Christmas Songs of All Time
    • Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
    • by Bleu Copas
    • American Homophobia
    • Weaponizing Chili
    • How to Become a Fascist Nation, in Seven Easy Steps
    • Sarah Plain, "refudiate" this!
    • Addicted to Bush
    • Donald Rumsfeld, Poet!
    • Dreaming of Obama
    • Conspicuous Presumption: the Dubious Wisdom of Bush & Co.
    • "The Whirlwinds of Revolt will continue to Shake the Foundations of our Nation ..."
    • The Path to Peace in the Middle East
    • The Palestinian Perspective on Peace
    • The Night the Stars Aligned: Nashville Welcomes Aziz Mekouar
    • Einstein on Palestine
    • Israeli Apartheid
    • Night Labor, a Poem for Rachel Corrie
    • Dear Mum: Email from an Israeli Prison Cell
    • Mother Israel
    • Mother Israel and the Children of Gaza
    • The Curious Blindness of Abba Eban
    • Avraham Burg: the Prophet-Poet of Judaism
    • Wrestling Angels and Chimeras
    • An Especially Eerie Convergence
    • The Robin Hood of the West Bank
    • Gideon Levy
    • Vanessa Redgrave: A Passion for Justice
    • In the Shadow of Rachel's Tomb
    • Liz Barger's Letter from Gaza (Almost)
    • Osama bin Laden and the Twin Terrors
    • The Chicken or the Egg?
    • How Palestine Became Divided
    • Parables of Zion
    • Fardin Mohammadi
    • Logic 101
    • April Fools
    • The Genesis of Armageddon
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