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  LITERARY         by Tejan Green Waszak  A cool breeze Given to the night.   A distinct laugh, an intense stare, Bursts of optimism filling the room, Becoming the air.   A memory where every suggestion is…

LITERARY         by Jon L Peacock     About the poet:   Jon L Peacock graduated from LIU’s MFA program in 2010, and since then he’s made a career out of his literary and performance arts. Writings…

LITERARY         by Jamey Jones for Lewis Warsh   Guppy is a funny word, but For whatever reason I don’t Think I ever saw that until You used it once or twice in The stanza of a…

LITERARY         by Giuseppe Infante In a window Watching the garden I feel unwelcome On this planet Full of blood toxins & various cheeses Tiptoeing through a stainless steel grater Like an elephant at graveside Trying so…

LITERARY         by John High And perhaps in this moment you can hear the voice yourself? Propping up your elbow on the table at the imagined cafe with the Poet in your own particular being and place…

LITERARY         by Tony Iantosca    Certain only that we have bodies the question then becomes what to do with them and why to do that and not something else. Losing it, you can become something else…

  LITERARY       by Christine Gans  I was fortunate enough to spend my undergraduate and graduate years with Lewis at LIU. My first ever workshop was with Lewis and he was the first reader on my MFA thesis,…

Here comes the Memorial Day weekend, a propaganda opportunity for the System to promote the country’s militarization. The holiday was established following the Civil War, the costliest and deadliest war ever fought on American soil, with some 620,000 of 2.4…

“Net Zero by 2050” is the rallying cry of scientists and policymakers throughout the world. However, that epithet echoes past decades of climate change/global warming mitigation plans, one after another, all failures. The world’s continuing failure to come to grips…

On the 11th of August of 1994, section 17 (1) of the new article 75 which recognised the pre-existing indigenous villages, their culture, and the right of occupancy and property of their ancestral lands among others, was unanimously approved by…