Poetry
For the Nation

Contributor
Lisa JarnotLisa Jarnot's fourth book of poems, Night Scenes, was published by Flood Editions this year.
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The Art of Eliminating a Nation
By Shir Mohammad KarimiNOV 2021 | Critics Page
What a pain to hear a young woman cry, a thousand wishes gone. A child weeps for the father he has lost. These children did not choose where to be born. And yet, here we are. They are paying the biggest cost for this war of the world. To be witness to the explosion of a bomb in front of the girls school; one can never imagine. Their only crime was the desire to learn. This picture should be a source of shame for the world; it is a pure pain for us.
Dear Friends and Readers
By Phong BuiMARCH 2023 | Publisher's Message
Many of us may still remember how the great Athenian statesman Pericles proposed to melt the gold from the statue of Athena, patron goddess of the city, when the war against Sparta was exhausting all of Athenss funds. Which leads us to think about how a symbol can elicit such strong emotional responses from the nations citizens when it is at the risk of being desecrated.