Local businesses oppose Malloy bill
By MARJORIE NEEDHAM
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy is describing his liquor store bill, Governor’s Bill No. 14, as a benefit for the consumer. Local package store owners say the ... Continue Reading →
Power plant financial benefits disputed
By MARJORIE NEEDHAM
The Stop Towantic Power Coalition spokesman, Paul Coward of Oxford, said at a press conference Monday that the proposed Oxford power plant will bring much less ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Feb. 25, 2016
Kansas
Gary Jackson
It’s love you left, we’ll say
when you never come back
for bells for the dead, for the grave
stone heads: the only ones
that don’t keep count. ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Feb. 24, 2016
Vapor
Sara Eliza Johnson
When it happens the rain
is not black but powder.
A noise bleeds from your ears
and everything quakes
alive inside you:
the circuits of the flowers
lighting ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Feb. 23, 2016
Nebraska
Michael Dumanis
I could play the accordion
so I was selected for the amateur propaganda team.
It was very cold. I had to stop up the hole in my shoe.
I used the lid of a tin ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Feb. 22, 2016
Seeing the Body
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Not hers but mine. Not hers ever again. Ever
hers, my body pulled through, two
long windows open in the dark of birth,
the gold cord raised too ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Feb. 21, 2016
The Awakening
James Weldon Johnson
I dreamed that I was a rose
That grew beside a lonely way,
Close by a path none ever chose,
And there I lingered day by day.
Beneath the sunshine ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Feb. 20, 2016
Flame-Heart
Claude McKay
So much have I forgotten in ten years,
So much in ten brief years; I have forgot
What time the purple apples come to juice
And what month brings the shy forget-me-not;
Forgotten ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Feb. 19, 2016
The Philosopher Did Not Say
Jennifer Franklin
What secret had Nietzsche discovered
when he walked the Turin streets
before he flung his arms around
a horse being beaten and collapsed
into ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Feb. 18, 2016
Ghost Eden
Erika Meitner
after Anthony Haughey’s “Settlement”
Garden of rock.
Garden of brick and heather.
Garden of cranes with their hands raised
as if they know ... Continue Reading →
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