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"I see Trees Standing in Deep Water" From The Department of Poetic Justice (and Poetic Reckoning)

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook

The town of Brunswick, Maine is set to remove 2/3 of the trees on Maine Street because it is too expensive to work around them as they install new ...

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"It's A Grand Night for Bailing!" In the Department of Poetic Justice (some Lyrics for the Great American Wrongbook) !

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: ..And somewhere a Bird Who Is Bound he'll be heard is giving his lawyer a call,,,,.., Credit: Susan Cook

In The Department of Poetic Justice (with lyrics for The Great American Wrongbook ) , remembering another moment of ex, um disclosure!

"A Sonnet for the Waterfall" Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Ruth Bader Ginsburg March 15, 1933 - September 18, 2020, Credit: Susan Cook

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at age 87. " When the spark had finally stopped, ending finally, the luscious waterfall, (the opulent deceit, the ple...

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Remembering September 11, 2001: "The Fall"

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets, Credit: Poems by Susan Cook

On the anniversary of September 11, In Memoriam , "The Fall" (submitted 9/16/2013 in "Blue: American Sonnets" to the Beatrice Hawley (now Alice Ja...

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Journalist Suppression and Fear for Democracy- Sonnet for the Journalist Who Said 'Wink, Wink'

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Sonnet for Wink, Wink -Susan Cook- There are places here on earth where a wink at the wro...

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Three Poems for Hard Times

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "We are watching the edge of the world, held by a vision, the persistence of breath...", Credit: Susan Cook

"When Loss and Innocence", "What Courage Wears to Bed", "The Meaning of Life". Poems from the author of "Breathing: American Sonnets"

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Sonnet for What Will Be Well

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: 'shipwrecked, lost everything, all's well...", Credit: Edgar Cook

Poems are solace in times of not knowing. Today, a Sonnet for What Will Be Well. "There are events that narrowly avoid crossing our paths, eve...

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One Doctor’s Quest to Improve Health Care for People with Disabilities

From: Tradeoffs

Caption: Kevin Carlson ringside at Monday Night Raw., Credit: Tradeoffs/Leslie Waker

As adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities strive to live more freely and fully than ever before, many of America’s doctors, hospit...

The Mass Shooting Sequence: In Memoriam

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

We know too much of the sequence of the aftermath of a Mass Shooting Sequence.

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How Einstein Understood E=mc Squared

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Poetry Month and Einstein creating E=mc squared

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Essay | http://wprnPublicRadio.com The Neglect Of Rural America

From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio

Mainstream media’s neglect of rural America is a multifaceted issue with deep-rooted causes and significant consequences. First and foremost, the e...

A Sonnet for the Quantum Mechanics of Poetry

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "...to a wider grasp...", Credit: Susan J Cook

Poetry best helps us grasp the Quantum Mechanics topic of the latest Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Three Poems for These Times

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "When loss and innocence...", Credit: Susan Cook

Three poems of loss, courage and resilience for these times.

A Poem to the President of the NRA

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

This poem to the President of the NRA has no statistics, no logic, no legal reasoning or principle. Only profound grief and sadness..

Why Women Don't Tell, Part 3: The Cultural Anomie that Keeps Violence Toward Women Hidden in Broad Daylight

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

The arrest of a Fifth Avenue architect as the alleged serial murderer of several women brings up the question of whether anyone over that long peri...

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Sonnet for Looking for China

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Forget-me-knots in bloom..., Credit: Susan Cook

From the Spring 2023 Maine Arts Journal. A poem on the intricacies of grieving.

The Conservative Clash Over Abortion Bans

From: Tradeoffs

Less than a year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, some states are rethinking their abortion bans. This week, reporter Alice Miranda...

The Push to Bring Medicaid Behind Bars

From: Tradeoffs

People leaving jail and prison are at extremely high risk of hospitalization and death. This week, why policymakers from deep blue California to so...

Shaming and Humiliating By Choice: Roe v. Wade and Denying Consequence

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: At the 1996 Dem National Convention, at the beginning of the Platform debate, women protested for the right to choose..., Credit: New York Times, August 28, 1996

As 6 Supreme Court Justices end Roe v. Wade, shaming and humiliating Pro-Choice advocates becomes the anti-choice strategy.

Auld Lang Syne Repurposing the Bottom Line To Hear For Whom The Bell Tolls!

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

This year, even with its dashed hopes and fear of "deja vu all over again" an abundance of good prevailed.

Follow your recycling from bin to bale

From: KSFP
Series: Civic

Ride along with a sanitation worker who collects everything in San Francisco’s blue bins, and learn some dos and don’ts of recycling at a Recology ...