Monday, September 23, 2019

FROM PUSHKIN TO PUSSY RIOT: RUSSIAN POLITICAL POETRY AND PROSE

It's here! The special issue of Matter, FROM PUSHKIN TO PUSSY RIOT, RUSSIAN POLITICAL POETRY AND PROSE, guest edited by Larissa Shmailo and Philip Nikolayev (Филипп Николаев) with work by Alexander SkidanMaria Galina, Inna Kabysh, Dennis Novikov, Tatyana Shcherbina, Maria Alyokhina, Alexander Pushkin, Anna Akhmatova, Olga LivshinKatherine YoungMichael T. YoungIgor SatanovskyKatia KapovichPolina BarskovaAnna HalberstadtIrina MashinskiDmitry Kuzmin, Lev Rubinstein, Alexandar Mihailovic, Olga Florensky, Alexei Tsvetkov Алексей ЦветковAnatoly Kudryavitsky, Olga Chugai, Dean KostosAlexander Veytsman and many more! Special thanks to Matter editors Virginia Konchan and Glenn Shaheen, with additional thanks to Jonathan Penton for invaluable assistance!
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Monday, September 16, 2019

BEHIND ALZHEIMER'S

I am looking at Alzheimer's disease and behind it is still the person I love, my friend through thick and thin. Glad we still have this time, this day together. Our bond was forged by shared memories but has become something stronger, more eternal and of the soul. She is my sister, chosen, not born, and what we share transcends appointments, dates, and factoids. Love is still here.

Saturday, September 07, 2019

RACIST CUTS FOR RACIST WALL

Trump's cuts to planned military construction projects for his racist wall steals $400 milllion for 10 projects desperately needed for jobs and infrastructure in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. Schools and day care centers for our service peoples' children have also been axed across the country. All this is in clear violation of the Constitution, which states that only Congress has the power of the purse. Will Congress takes this lying down? Sadly, its belly-down supine posture says, thanks, sir, please give me another.

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