by Patricia Smith, Melissa Tuckey | Mar 15, 2008 | Environment
ST. BERNARD PARISH, La., Sept. 7 (UPI) – Thirty-four bodies were found drowned in a nursing home where people did not evacuate. The more than half of the residents of St. Rita’s nursing home, 20 miles southeast from downtown New Orleans, died Aug. 29 when...
by Sarah Browning, John Feffer | Mar 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
Don’t you hear this hammer ring? I’m gonna split this rock And split it wide! When I split this rock, Stand by my side. – Langston Hughes When we first began organizing the Split This Rock Poetry Festival about a year and a half ago, I told people...
by John Feffer, Christi Kramer | Mar 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
Sublime, if the gardens in misfortune are taken, they shall be returned If anyone steal cattle or sheep, or an ass, or a pig or a goat, if it belong to a god or the court. If anyone steal the minor son of another. If break a hole into a house. If the thief has nothing...
by John Feffer, Susan Tichy | Feb 21, 2008 | War & Peace
1. Three men who look like Bedouin, but are not, pause with their camels in the snow— Photo shot through a bus window, twenty-nine years ago on the Khyber Pass. On the radio I thought they said: ‘The way the war is disinfected,’ So I turned the page...
by John Feffer, Lee Sharkey | Feb 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
If the whole body is a heart, then the woman who steps out of the car with Texas plates to yell at the silent peace vigil is a heart overlaid with hate I have two children in the war and let me tell you: They are the heroes, you don’t deserve to walk this earth...
