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BLACK LIVES MATTER ~

 

Table of Contents ~  Syndic No.30 ~ July 4th 2020

 

  Francis Poole ~ Poem ~ “We All Must Wear A Lovely Crown of Fish Heads”

♦  John Ladd  ~ A Play In One Act   ~  “The Boys of ’76”

♦  Dav Rose   ~  Poem   ~ “Obituary”

♦  Charles Rammelkamp ~  Story  ~  “Fireworks”

♦  Nitin Jagdish  ~  A Meditation   ~  “Fourth of July”

  Matthew Hohner  ~  Poem  ~  “Slave Stones”

♦  Jennifer Lagier  ~  Poem  ~ “Independence Day”

♦  Robert Cooperman  ~  Poem  ~ “The Commander- in- Chief on July 4th 2020”

♦  Bebe Barkan  ~  Painting  ~ “Quarantina”

♦  Bill Wolak  ~  7 Photographs   ~  “July 4th, 2020”

  Charles Rammelkamp  ~  Story   ~ “A New Birth of Freedom”

♦  Stanley H. Barkan  ~  Poem  ~  ” Shelliach Mitzvah”

♦ Terence Cannon  ~  Memoir Story  ~ “Reborn On The Fourth of July

♦  Tim Brown  ~  Music  ~ “Blue Day”

♦  LeRoy Chatfield  ~  Commentary/Opinion   ~ ” Our Commander-In-Chief”

♦  Stephen Mead   ~  Video   ~  “George Floyd, Last Words (Someone Please)”

♦  Stanley H. Barkan  ~  Poem  ~  “JULY”

Richard Baldwin Cook  ~  Essay   ~  “Tell Us Watchman, Of The Night”

♦  John Digby  ~  4 Collages  ~  “Miss Liberty”

♦  Barbara Rhine  ~  Handbook   ~  “Covid 19 Handbook”

LeRoy Chatfield  ~ Syndic  Dedication & Honor Role 

Bebe Barkan  ~ Painting   ~  “Shelter In Place”

Matthew Hohner  ~  Poem  “A Dialect of Hammers”

Charles Rammelkamp  ~  Story   ~  “Miracle Baby”

♦  Dav Rose  ~  Poem  ~  “The Noble Army”

♦  Stanley H. Barkan  ~ Poem    ~  “SHPILKES”

LeRoy Chatfield  ~  Easy Essay  ~ “I’ll Be Damned!”

♦  J.H. Johns ~ Poem ~ “We The People”

  Pat Hoffman   ~  Poem   “In Gratitude for Women”

♦  Jennifer Lagier    ~   Poem     ~   “Thinning The Herd”

♦ Nitin Jagdish   ~  One Act Play  ~  “Independence Day”

♦  Stanley H. Barkan  ~  Poem  ~  “Discontinued American”

♦  Charles Rammelkamp  ~  Story   ~  “Bye Bye Centennial”

♦ Elaine Elinson   ~  Story   ~  “On Solidarity”

♦  Mike Miller   ~  Commentary/Opinion   ~  “I Fear For The Future”

♦  John Hartmire  ~  Essay   ~  “Quality of Noise”

♦  Stephen Mead  ~  Graphic  ~   “ME  ME  ME   ME”

Ernest Lowe   ~  Poem  ~  “For a Friend”

Yolanda Barrera   ~  Poem   ~  “Ode To A Farmworker”

♦ Mike Hill    ~  Essay     ~    “Interdependence Day”

♦  Erika Prasad   ~   Essay    ~  “A Freedom of the Mind”

  Stephen Mead  ~  Graphic   ~  Trump’s Covid 19 Reports  Jan-Mar 2020″

 ♦  Michael Lee Johnson  ~  Poem  ~  “Hamilton Lakes/ Itasca, Illinois”

♦ Victor Aleman   ~   Photographs     ~  “Marching For Immigration Reform”

♦ Ernest Lowe   ~  Poem   ~  Ode To Interdependence”

Gary Beck  ~  Poem  ~  “Holiday IV”

♦  Laura Boss  ~  Poem   ~  “The Fireworks”

♦  Yolanda Barrera    ~  Poem   ~    Dedication To Parents of Graduates”

♦  Charles Haddox  ~  Story    ~  “A Martyr”

♦  Richard Ybarra   ~   Essay   ~    1776 – 2020  “When Freedom Rang”

Roger  Netzer   ~  Story  ~  “Fourth of July 1968”

♦  LeRoy Chatfield  ~  Easy Essay  ~  “Pandemic Death”

~   IN MEMORIAM   ~

♦ In Memory of  Cesar Chavez   ~  In His Own Words

♦  Jelly Roll Justice   ~ Katrina  Memoir   ~  “First Year After Levees Broke”

♦  “In Memory of Jessica Govea ~ July 4, 2020”

  In Memory:  Glen Pearcy  ~ Filmmaker, Friend & Colleague  ~ “Another River To Cross”

  In Memoriam: Photographer Jon Lewis – 2009

 

~  Post Deadline Submissions  ~

♦ Bill Berkowitz   ~   Poem      ~  “You Can Get Killed By The Police”

♦ Chris Giovacchini       ~  Retrospective     ~  “Emmett Till and Other Black Lives”

♦ Lee Foust      ~  Excerpt    ~  “Fake Novel”

♦  Kate Chatfield    ~ Commentary/Criminal Justice    ~  “Four Boys”

♦ Eric D. Goodman    ~   Story     ~  “The Flag in the Road”

 

 

 

 

 

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