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Money & Economics

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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineLay It Bare

    By Anders Carlson-Wee
    I know you’re hungry for it.
    More money. More news. Desperate

    for any laurel that parades you
    as happier…
  • Audio
    Poetry Off the Shelf
    Perry Janes on Hollywood, ego, and trying not to break his NDA.
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine

    According to the Study

    By Erin Belieu
    The rich report greater levels of happiness,
                                              & the study goes on to demonstrate
    how we humans use money…
  • Poem
    By Adam O. Davis
    1. If a house is haunted like a radio
    is haunted         If a body is a radio
    of blood         If a body of ghosts
    hums…
  • Poem
    By Layli Long Soldier
    Here, the sentence will be respected.

    I will compose each sentence with care, by minding what the rules…
  • Poem
    By Maurya Simon
    Delirium in the downtown mall today:
          Burt Reynolds! All the henna-haired girls
                sneer, while their mothers…
  • Poem
    By Tracy K. Smith
    200 cows         more than 600 hilly acres

                property would have been even larger
    had J not sold 66 acres to …
  • Poem
    By ire’ne lara silva
    this is what they will not tell you
    and this is what you must know
    if you hear nothing else i say
    hear…
  • Poem
    By Kimberly Jae
    If a jar of jelly is $2.98
    & a loaf of Hawaiian bread is $4
    Then how much bail money will I need when…
  • Poem
    By CAConrad
    melting glaciers      
                           frighten me when      
    appearing on      
    my street as…
  • Poem
    By Rachel Long
    I feel middle class when I'm in love.
    I think it's all the poached eggs on bird-seed bread,
    staying …
  • Poem
    By Lorna Dee Cervantes
    We were so poor.
    The air was a quiver
    of thoughts we drew from

    to poise, unsaid
    in the ineffable
    world…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine

    thieves in the temple

    By Destiny O. Birdsong
    After Donne

    exeunt my heart, evangelical god, for you
                are still frosted and feathered somewhere
    in …
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