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pamela-ferris-olson's picture
Jul.27.2010
Naomi sent me a message. She asked: “What I would like to know, is when you are trying to get a paid gig online, how do you find out if it is legitimate? And if they refuse to pay you at some point, what can be done about that. Most of us cannot afford a literary lawyer, since they are so expensive...
farzana-versey's picture
Jun.07.2010
There is no comparison but if you take the BP oil spill and the Union Carbide gas leak you will see how shamelessly we let big corporations get away with murder. This is not justice from any angle you look at it. The verdict in the Bhopal Gas Murders – for a long we all have been calling it a...
maureen-sherbondy's picture
Nov.06.2009
What We Don’t Get               My fantasy goes something like this: I enter a poetry contest and win first prize. The famous Duke professor/ poet or the North Carolina Poet Laureate phones me personally to inform me of the good news. He says I wish I had written it myself! I call every person I...