by Naomi Shihab Nye, Melissa Tuckey | Apr 26, 2012 | War & Peace
We demonstrated on a steaming day, carrying signs. Five hundred thousand people in the streets of New York saying no to war crowds gathering for blocks and miles, crush and press of all the world’s religions and secular codes, WE SHALL NOT KILL and the next day our...
by Melissa Tuckey | Mar 22, 2012 | Environment
Homero Aridjis is the author of more than 40 books of poetry and prose and is one of Latin America’s leading environmental activists. In 1985, he founded the Group of 100, an association of artists and intellectuals devoted to environmental protection and...
by Jose Padua, Melissa Tuckey | Mar 2, 2012 | War & Peace
A single summer’s sparrow on the asphalt is notthe bird one usually associates with the countrylife. It’s not the life I am living. The bird is ascavenger; the asphalt is hot to the touch and bendsto one’s softest step. Dirt roads that wind...
by Kathy Engel, Melissa Tuckey | Feb 22, 2012 | Human Rights
The message comes through aol.com, finds me offbalance in a small school in Jersey, snowpuffing down, no newspaper in sight.Hi love, the message reads, thinking of you in London, heart in Gaza.Unsigned, I know the e-mail address like my ownname, reply too quickly, no...
by Kyi May Kaung, Melissa Tuckey, Naing Win Swe | Feb 14, 2012 | Human Rights
That time when theysubmerged my headin waterthey did notnot evenone momentlet meraise it upto breathe. Thick cream of mudessence of mudwaterrushes overruns overmy head. Flotsam JetsamDirt ExcrementFloating weeds. Old rotting logsfallingaparthit my headbump my headI...
