Sunday, 31 January 2016
Saffron Rain
by Ankur Betageri (February 2016)
And it poured and poured
as I held my umbrella and stood under the awning
of the bookstore more>>>
Posted on 01/31/2016 10:45 AM by NER
Sunday, 31 January 2016
A Hand is the First Thing One Gives to Another
by Sutapa Chaudhuri (February 2016)
Lies inform
the leftover caresses. more>>>
Posted on 01/31/2016 10:41 AM by NER
Sunday, 31 January 2016
Flow Infinite
by Dilip Mohapatra (February 2016)
The ink flows in microdrops
and encapsulates the flow of thoughts
Posted on 01/31/2016 10:37 AM by NER
Sunday, 31 January 2016
Three Poems From a Sequence: Nightmare Versions
In these bizarre times our own nightmares can seem a refuge
by Evelyn Hooven (February 2016)
A SUMMARY
It does recur, yes often—
The voices intimate, stern,
Say over and over more>>>
Posted on 01/31/2016 10:32 AM by NER
Sunday, 31 January 2016
The Merchant of Scarsdale
by David P. Gontar (February 2016)
There was once a successful financier of Scarsdale who had accumulated a sizable fortune in the commodities market. As his health was good and he’d avoided the pitfalls that led to degeneracy and scandal he was, despite the stresses of business, among the most contented of fellows, and would have enjoyed a rare felicity had it not been for his wife, a congenital spendthrift. more>>>
Posted on 01/31/2016 10:27 AM by NER
Sunday, 31 January 2016
The University Talk that Cost Ali Wheatley His Career
by A. Human Being (February 2016)
September 13, 2013: Arkham, Massachusetts, USA
If Western scholars must bury the fact that Muhammad was a mass-murderer, then something is deeply wrong with their thinking in following their convictions. If we were talking about Hitler or Stalin it would be a no-brainer. more>>>
Posted on 01/31/2016 10:22 AM by NER
Sunday, 31 January 2016
The Faces of Love
by Sam Bluefarb (February 2015)
“There is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the face of doom, which invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given color to their lifetime. . . .”
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
She was one of the brightest, most perceptive students who had taken his Modern British Lit.--Doris Lessing was a favorite of hers--and in some ways, the most mature. She thought of herself as a "moderate feminist," posessing a wonderful sense of humor that probably tempered what she called her "darker side"-- said with a smile. more>>>
Posted on 01/31/2016 10:16 AM by NER
Sunday, 31 January 2016
Glimpsing a Revolution through the Chinks of the Text: Deconstructing Mrichchhakatika
by Ankur Betageri (February 2016)
Poverty and the effect it has on the psyche of man is a central theme in Shudraka’s play Mrichchhakatika. Poverty forces the characters to explore three main life-paths: of being oriented towards this world, where everything is mediated through power and money; towards the other world, where the spirit reigns supreme; and towards another world that can emerge out of this world, through love and politics. more>>>
Posted on 01/31/2016 10:12 AM by NER
Sunday, 31 January 2016
Thornton Wilder: Two Laments
by James Como (February 2016)
These days the American reading and theatre-going public pays little attention to Thornton Wilder, and that sporadically at best, as when David Cromer’s marvelous production of Our Town broke Off Broadway in 2012. This neglect is unfortunate for three reasons. First, Wilder may be our greatest Person of Letters (for example, he is the only writer to win Pulitzer’s for both his plays and his fiction, and his criticism and scholarship are often dispositive). more>>>
Posted on 01/31/2016 10:08 AM by NER
Sunday, 31 January 2016
The Making of Anti-Muslim Protest – Grassroots Activism in the English Defence League
Posted on 01/31/2016 10:04 AM by NER
Sunday, 31 January 2016
Bernard Kops, Poetry & Peril
Peace Will Come, Anne Frank Insists, You Will See
by Thomas Ország-Land (February 2016)
Bernard Kops, the doyen of Anglo-Jewish letters, has responded to a global resurgence of violent anti-Semitism by issuing a new collection of verse called Anne Frank’s Fragments from Nowhere. This is his second major work exploring the legacy of the teenage diarist. Anne was murdered in Bergen-Belsen after hiding with her family for two exhausting years in a secret annex at the back of an Amsterdam building. more>>>
Posted on 01/31/2016 9:58 AM by NER
Sunday, 31 January 2016
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise
Posted on 01/31/2016 9:52 AM by NER
Sunday, 31 January 2016
“Thank you Donald”
by Lorna Salzman (February 2016)
TO: Donald Trump
FROM: Pres. Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee
SUBJECT: in appreciation for your racist rants
Dear Donald:
We are really liking the way you strut your stuff! It isn’t our style but when did we ever have style? When we nominated Al Gore, the liberal bore? Actually maybe when we nominated Bill Clinton (before his trespasses of course). But things are different today. more>>>
Posted on 01/31/2016 9:47 AM by NER
Sunday, 31 January 2016
Attila the Hen
by G. Murphy Donovan (February 2016)
“If I hadn’t started painting, I would have raised chickens.” – Grandma Moses
It all began as a bit of an experiment. Three neighbors discussing the virtues of fresh eggs. My wife eats eggs like a ferret. We all like breakfast and baked goods too. So why not get a modest flock of chickens, thought we all. So the women made plans and the men built a coop; a natty cedar affair with a fenced run, a ramp, a roost, windows, doors, and two nesting boxes. more>>>
Posted on 01/31/2016 9:43 AM by NER
Sunday, 31 January 2016
Boko Haram burns kids alive in northeast Nigeria: witness

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard the screams of children among people burned to death in the latest attack by Nigeria's homegrown Islamic extremists.
At least 65 people were killed during an attack by Islamist militant group Boko Haram near Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri, a Reuters reporter said after counting bodies at a hospital morgue. A Nigerian military spokesman, Colonel Mustapha Ankas, said that Boko Haram militants attacked the community of Dalori, about 5 km (3 miles) east of Maiduguri in Borno state.
Scores of charred corpses and bodies with bullet wounds littered the streets from Saturday night's attack on Dalori village just 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram and the biggest city in the northeast, according to survivors and soldiers.
The shooting and burning continued for four hours, survivor Alamin Bakura said, weeping on a telephone call to The Associated Press.
The violence continued as three female suicide bombers blew up among people who managed to flee to neighboring Gamori village, killing many people, according to a soldier at the scene who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to journalists.
It was not known how many scores of people were killed because bodies still were being collected, including from the surrounding bushes where the insurgents hunted down fleeing villagers, according to Abba Shehu, a security guard helping collect corpses.
Boko Haram has taken to attacking soft targets, increasingly with suicide bombers, since the military last year drove them out of towns and villages in northeastern Nigeria.

Posted on 01/31/2016 9:26 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax

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