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On World AIDS Day, longtime HIV carrier considers progress
LOS ANGELES — On this World AIDS Day, I will enter my 40th year of living with HIV. I have seen a lot over those...
Youthful commentary: Sex ed and the ‘human advantage’
On Facebook earlier this month, a concerned reader critiqued a commentary published on NonDoc about public relations at a local, private high school. That reader...
In defense of Earth: Governments decay life
Defense of Earth
by James Coburn
Land grabbers of sacred earth,
purity contaminated by lustful greed.
Beauty defiled.
Eighty-five percent of Bears Ears public land
about to open for consumption...
Poetry: Starry night of the great fire & The final seder
Starry Night of the Great Fire
by Derek Geiger
Chattel ride a ferrous horse
Off to their ash-filled commune
To forge axes for the norse
As they march to...
Letter: Technology but no sense, brains but no heart
To the editors:
Think about it: We are advanced enough to send a satellite to Saturn through a bunch of millions miles of empty space,...
From Zimbabwe: ‘A hunger for shared experiences’
(Editor's note: The following three poems are written by Ndaba Sibanda of Zimbabwe.)
How They Received Him
He was moving from door
to door, asking citizens
to give...
Sundaze: Reporting live from Mogadishu
Reporting from Mogaadishuuuuu…
By Kariuki wa Nyamu
Grenades are hurled! Bullets meet bullets, in
human raids and sink deep into flesh, as rifles take final assault!
Men perish...
Nigerian poet offers up two short pieces
A Slap on Revolution
by Nelson Vincent Ayomitunde
When we raise our hands in resilience
We are battered down in disdain
When we raise our eyes against decadence
We...
Poems: ‘The Blue God’ of war is coming and more
The Blue God
by Joan McNerney
The blue god of war
is so strong
he can twist trees
with the tip of his tongue.
You better not defy him
scream at...
