bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Effect of Green Human Resources Management (HRM) Policies, Employee Engagement in Green Activities, and Sustainability Communication on Firm Performance
Authors: Zhu Liu
Published: May 2023

The current study intends to evaluate how green human resources management (HRM) policies, employee engagement in green activities, and sustainability communication affect the performance of the company. This study's primary objective is to conduct an examination of the human resources management literature while concentrating on the three factors mentioned above that affect business performance. According to the body of research in the area, the firm's performance was positively impacted by green human resources management (HRM) policies, employee engagement in green activities, and sustainability communication.
Metempsychotic Bloom
Authors: Cheadle Norman
Published: May 2023

This chapter proposes that the character Don Ecuménico in Leopoldo Marechal’s Adán Buenosayres (1948)—the first Ulyssean novel to be written in Spanish—is a composite construction inspired by both Leopold Bloom and the real-life Argentine José Salas Subirat, the first Spanish-language translator of Ulysses. Marechal takes from Joyce’s novel, and reworks in his Don Ecuménico, Bloom’s intertextual antecedents, in particular the English morality play Everyman and Dante’s version of the classical Ulysses in Canto 26 of the Inferno. This intertextual amalgam is superimposed on the autodidactic insurance man, Salas Subirat, whose translation Ulises (1945) initially perplexed the literary scene of mid-twentieth-century Buenos Aires but has since then come to be considered integral to the Argentine canon. Marechal’s Ecuménico thus initiates a long process of Bloom’s Spanish-American transculturation, as well as Salas Subirat’s “Bloomification” in Argentine literary culture.
Melodies of Underdevelopment
Authors: Wood Michael
Published: May 2023

This essay looks at the bivalent nature of humor in asymmetrical power relations, where it can function both as a means to do the work of imperialism and as a cunning form of resistance to it. The argument traces the parallels between Joycean humor and that of Cuban writers such as Eduardo Desnoës and Guillermo Cabrera Infante, as well as the Honduran-Guatemalan Augusto Monterroso. Several theoretical notions are juggled, including the subaltern and the tropics, along with binaries such as developed/undeveloped or the in-place versus the out-of-place, in order to show how such hierarchical constructs are radically destabilized by the creative humor in “melodies of underdevelopment.”
Gaming Finnegans Wake
Authors: Hughes Zoe
Published: May 2023

What kind of object is Finnegans Wake, and how, besides reading it, might we come to know it? In this chapter, I submit that Finnegans Wake has profound structural affinities to what are called “open-world games”—affinities which stand to change not only the humor in which we approach the novel, but also the value that we accord to non-expert-reader experiences. Like other comparisons, the open world homology points to the active engagement that Finnegans Wake demands from even its casual readers. Unlike other comparisons, it purports to mobilize the Wake’s open-endedness, emphasizing the richness and diversity of critical interactions it supports.
Women’s Baseball
Authors: Heaphy Leslie
Published: May 2023

Leslie Heaphy explores the heritage representations of women in baseball. Heaphy argues that because there is limited nostalgia about women’s baseball—save for, perhaps, representations in popular culture such as the film A League of Their Own—as such, there are few heritage representations of women in baseball. Heaphy finds that those heritage representations of women in baseball which do exist—such as in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and at other heritage sites and museums across the United States—are scattershot and haphazard at best, provide a limited unifying story or narrative, and give very little indication of the significant involvement of women in baseball throughout the game’s history. Heaphy suggests that much of the marginalization of women’s baseball heritage has to do with broader cultural constructions of baseball and masculinity, which therefore marginalizes and excludes women’s involvement. Ultimately, Heaphy suggests some ways in which this heritage could be represented, including the construction of a dedicated museum about women in baseball and the creation of more public events celebrating women’s baseball heritage.
Baseball Heritage in Japan
Authors: Ito Eiji , Hikoji Kei , Chogahara Makoto
Published: May 2023

Not only professional but also high school baseball are popular sports in Japan. The enthusiasm about the latter is created by the National High School Baseball Championships that have been hosted at the Hanshin Koshien Stadium for over a century, and this significant history has turned the ballpark into a mecca for all Japanese baseball (ex-)players. In this unique heritage ballpark, an annual masters sport event, the Masters Koshien, targeted for people who used to be high school baseball players has been hosted since 2004. The results of thematic analysis on Japanese newspaper articles about the Masters Koshien identified the following themes (sub-themes): personal (meaning-making, positive emotions, nostalgia, and personal identity), collective (socialization, inspiration, group identity), and Masters Koshien-specific (masters culture, authenticity, social benefits) heritage. These results are discussed in light of theoretical and practical implications particularly as a unique context of heritage sport tourism in Japan.
Movable, Removable, or Immovable?
Authors: Stride Chris
Published: May 2023

Statues are associated with permanence, yet sports statues sited at stadia challenge this assumption. Sports venues are not immortal, and rarely venerable: baseball welcomed a plethora of new ballparks in the 1990s. An existing statue might not be considered suitable for a new venue, and the right to move it may be challenged by stakeholders. Focusing on a recent franchise move that brought such issues into focus—the Atlanta Braves’ 2017 relocation to Cobb County—this article describes disputes over statues of Hank Aaron and Ty Cobb, thus illuminating tensions surrounding the Braves’ and Atlanta’s sports heritage and history. Just as a sports statue allows different communities to simultaneously perceive ownership of a sports organisation’s past, moving that statue disrupts these claims and assumptions, creating conflict, and revealing how the sports organisation, its fans, local residents and public bodies interact with their heritage, with each other, and the ‘identity’ of their team.
On the Use of Stable Hydrogen (δ‎ 2 H) Isotope Analyses of Organic Fractions of Zooarchaeological Material
Authors: Hobson Keith A.
Published: May 2023

Measurement of the naturally occurring stable isotopes of hydrogen (δ‎2H) in organic materials have rarely been used in zooarchaeological applications. However, applications are numerous and can trace ecohydrological fluxes leading to upper trophic-level organisms, including humans. δ‎2H measurements are strongly linked to well-established spatial patterns of mean annual isotopic patterns in precipitation or surface waters and so can be used to trace origins and migration patterns in animals. They can also infer climatic biome characteristics related to archived materials. However, unlike the other light isotope measurements common in zooarchaeology and paleoecology investigations (e.g., δ‎13C, δ‎15N, δ‎34S, δ‎18O), hydrogen isotopes require particular diligence to produce useful and comparable isotopic results that can be appropriately interpreted. This chapter reviews current use and future potential of δ‎2H measurements of zooarchaeological material to infer origins and movement patterns of organisms, as well as the required laboratory quality control (QA/QC) to establish international standards of measurement and interpretation. Approaches are outlined to develop and use standardized analytical reference materials and methods, and to consider ways in which patterns of δ‎2H may have changed through time and how consumer isotope values may be related to ecology and physiology.
Bringing Depth to the Movement
Authors: Webster Crystal Lynn
Published: May 2023

Photographer Diana M. Henry captured Georgia McMurray’s participation in the 1977 Women’s Conference. The photograph represents not only a significant event in the trajectory of McMurray’s activism concerning child welfare and women’s rights, but also her experience at the conference as a Black woman who was wheelchair bound at a conference that was not accessible. This article analyzes these intersecting identities and illustrates how McMurray’s contributions to the conference broadened the women’s rights movement to include issues of race and disability.
Beyond the Symbolism
Authors: Fraser Zinga A.
Published: May 2023

Rep. Shirley Chisholm represents a pioneer in American politics through her role as an activist and politician, that went beyond the symbolism of being a political first and sought to transform various political movements during the 1960s–1970s. This article highlights Chisholm’s political and legislative career where she is part of a cadre of Black women who are operating across the Black Power and women’s movement. As a Black feminist, Chisholm plays a significant role in centering the lived experiences and voices of Black and Brown women that were often excluded from a broader women’s movement. Advocating the importance of coalition building among white women and women of color, Chisholm focused on legislation and organizing, as an effort to expand the reach of the women's movement. Her presence at 1977 National Women’s Conference was a testament to her commitment and hopes for a better women’s movement.
“I Was Me”
Authors: Rowley Sarah B.
Published: May 2023

Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, who represented Los Angeles, was one of the first Black women to be elected to Congress (1972), the first representative to give birth while serving, and the first woman to chair the Congressional Black Caucus. She garnered national press attention not only for her politics but for her personal life. This chapter situates Burke’s public persona within the intellectual tradition of Black feminism. Throughout her time in Congress, Burke used the novelty of her very presence as a Black woman politician to garner public attention for issues related to gender and racial equality. Burke’s politics were explicitly intersectional, and as a visible mother of a young child, she challenged the omnipresent "Black matriarch" stereotype of dysfunction and gender disorder within Black families.
Maxine Waters
Authors: Ferrari Carlyn
Published: May 2023

This chapter chronicles Congresswoman Maxine Waters’s participation in the 1977 Conference and highlights how her contribution to the 1977 Conference served as a career-defining moment that helped launch her decades-long career in public service. Noting her organizing and grassroots activism experience in the Head Start program, the author demonstrates how the 1977 Conference allowed Waters to bridge her formal, political training with her community-building background. As an unrelenting advocate for communities of color, women, children, and the poor, Waters showcased her commitment to these underserved groups with her membership in the United Minority Caucus and helped to craft the “minority plank” resolutions, which sought to address race-and-gender-based discrimination that minority women face. Waters’s unwavering solidarity has earned her the affectionate nickname “Auntie Maxine,” and this chapter shows that “standing with” has been the pillar of her politics and activism.
Narration and Personification Allegory in Machaut’s Vergier
Authors: Palmer R. Barton
Published: May 2023

Guillaume de Machaut’s first narrative poem, the Dit du Vergier, has been dismissed as being an inferior imitation of the Roman de la Rose and generally disregarded as of any importance in the poet’s oeuvre beyond its existence as a kind of schoolboy exercise. This essay contests that view, arguing that it deserves a more appreciative reading. In its use of first-person narration and personification allegory in imitation of Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy, the Vergier both sets the pattern in general for the Machaldian dit and serves as the direct model for the Prologue, composed as an introduction to his oeuvre in the collected works manuscripts whose production Machaut oversaw in the last years of his life.
The Heart in the Minnelehre , the Roman de la Poire , and the Livre du Coeur d’ amour épris
Authors: Rüthemann Julia
Published: May 2023

The relationship between the “I” and allegorical characters in first-person narratives seems particularly established via the heart of the “I”: the allegorical characters affect the heart and thereby inspire the “I” to speak and write of love, of which the texts manifest themselves, showing their imbrication in the fact of expression. But it also seems that by means of the heart, the allegorical figures provide the “I” with an experience which that to be a universal experience of the allegory itself because it is an experience of words, not just feelings. This ineluctable nature of the discourse that constitutes the dit amoureux explains the exemplary and poetic nature of the “I.” In first-person allegorical narratives, the heart, moreover, possesses a narrative function: it allows the “I” to create a space of narration intrinsically linked with itself and thus can be viewed as representing as a trans-diegetic space the diegetic boundary between the “I” and the allegorical world.
Boundaries of Form and Subject in Fifteenth-Century Dits
Authors: Swift Helen
Published: May 2023

There is significant continuity in the late-medieval dit, the most popular form of first-person narrative courtly poetry in French. There are also, however, certain 15th century developments that raise in new ways important questions about boundaries of selfhood and self-definition in the dit: what constitutes the borders of a first-person subject? What are the parameters of “narrative” as an operable category in relation to “lyric” and “discursive”? These developments can fruitfully be explored through a significant courtly poetic phenomenon of the fifteenth century: Alain Chartier’s Belle Dame sans Mercy (1424), the literary debate (querelle) that the poem generated over the next half-century, and the legacy of Chartier’s influence attested by continued reception of the querelle into an early print anthology. Subjectivity emerges as a fundamentally relational entity and categories of poetic form as similarly permeable, situationally malleable constructs.
Boccaccio’s Amorosa Visione
Authors: Wolfzettel Friedrich
Published: May 2023

Boccaccio’s allegorical dream vision Amorosa Visione should rightly be considered the foundational manifesto of the Italian Renaissance. Written in the meter of Dante’s Divina Commedia and replete with Dantesque reminiscences, the Visione is nonetheless a deliberately anti-Dantean vision in which the concept of the Christian Otherworld has been replaced with the world of human grandeur and myth that is celebrated by literature and the arts. In this re-imagined version of the eternal world, the earthly paradise at the end of the Purgatorio from which Dante and Beatrice ascend to the heavenly Jerusalem has become a paradise accessible in this life, where the erotic dominates. In his dream, the narrator encounters abstracts over which he “triumphs,” the so-called trionfi that came to constitute a tradition carried forward by Petrarch and others in the early Renaissance; in the erotic context the poet did not hesitate to equate the Dantesque motto of “virtù e canoscenza” (Inferno XXVI) with his own new concept of the union of literary learning and erotic felicity.
The Semantics of Love and Narrative Ground in Guiraut Riquier’s Libre
Authors: Friede Susanne A.
Published: May 2023

This essay analyzes essential characteristics of the specific narrativity of the Libre by Guiraut Riquier, a kind of vita, resulting from the series of poems and their sequence. Key narrative elements which also deviate from the typical scenarios of earlier troubadour poetry—especially the death of the beloved domna and the conversio of the poetic “I” from the secular to a sacred understanding of love—can (and must) be viewed in the context of other Italian texts from the end of the duecento and the early trecento, primarily Dante’s Vita Nova and Petrarca’s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta. In this context, it is possible to gain a new perspective of both the meaning of the authorial function, as described in the prologue, and of questions regarding the status of the (auto) biographical stylization within the narrative.
An Irish-Jewish Politician, Joyce's Dublin, and Ulysses
Authors: Davison Neil R.
Published: May 2023

In this book, Neil Davison argues that Albert Altman (1853–1903), a Dublin-based businessman and Irish nationalist, influenced James Joyce’s creation of the character of Leopold Bloom, as well as Ulysses’s broader themes surrounding race, nationalism, and empire. Using extensive archival research, Davison reveals parallels between the lives of Altman and Bloom, including how the experience of double marginalization—which Altman felt as both a Jew in Ireland and an Irishman in the British Empire—is a major idea explored in Joyce’s work. Altman, a successful salt and coal merchant, was involved in municipal politics over issues of Home Rule and labor, and frequently appeared in the press over the two decades of Joyce’s youth. His prominence, Davison shows, made him a familiar name in the Home Rule circles with which Joyce and his father most identified. The book concludes by tracing the influence of Altman’s career on the Dubliners story “Ivy Day in the Committee Room,” as well as throughout the whole of Ulysses. Through Altman’s biography, Davison recovers a forgotten life story that illuminates Irish and Jewish identity and culture in Joyce’s Dublin.
The Altmans of Capel Street (1854–1875)
Authors: Davison Neil R.
Published: May 2023

Altman family history in Poland and immigration to Ireland. Moritz Altman’s (father) early tailor-shop of hats and military uniforms on Capel Street. Altman’s childhood, formative years, and Jewish upbringing. Altman’s trade-school education and interest in science and arts. Earliest beginnings of Altman & Sons Salt and Coal depot and delivery business. Family’s move to Pembroke Quay and expansion of their business.
Unions, Temperance-Labour, and Post-Parnell Dublin
Authors: Davison Neil R.
Published: May 2023

Altman’s involvement with labor strikes and unions. Altman becomes shareholder on Freeman’s Journal and influences paper’s post-Parnell politics. Death of first wife, Susan Altman, and second marriage to Victoria Corbett in Belfast. Altman’s initiative for public purchase of Dublin Tramways. The reunification of the Irish Parliamentary Party under O’Brien and Redmond. Altman encounters Jew-baiting and anti-Semitic attacks on the campaign trail. Political accusations of Altman’s racial inauthenticity as Irishman. Altman reads about Jews and Zionism in Dublin press and becomes patron of the Jewish Encyclopaedia. Altman continues to campaign to be elected to the Dublin Corporation.
To Tell a Black Story of Miami
Authors: McInnis Tatiana D.
Published: May 2023

This chapter explores the history of the Civil Rights Movement in South Florida, relying on the recollections of civil rights activist and Florida native, Patricia Stephens Due, and her daughter, speculative fiction author, Tananarive Due. Their collaboratively authored memoir Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights metaphorizes the perpetuity of the struggle for Black equality. Taking up the chronology of the memoir, this chapter contextualizes the historic and ongoing impacts of police brutality, residential segregation and urban renewal, alongside its attention to Overtown as a center for Black organizers.
Becoming Whiteness, Rejecting Blackness
Authors: McInnis Tatiana D.
Published: May 2023

This chapter offers a comparative analysis of racial and ethnic differences within Miami’s Cuban American populations through an examination of memoirs by Carlos Moore and Carlos Eire. Using the authors’ insights, this chapter traces the various assimilation routes available to lighter-complected émigrés as compared to those available to émigrés with darker skin. Further, the chapter concludes that Moore and Eire represent these different routes through the form of their memoirs; Eire, a white-passing émigré embraces the fluidity of the postmodern, which emblematizes his “life on the hyphen” wherein he can variously embrace and reject his Cubanness to pass as white-American because of his light skin. Moore, on the other hand, replicates prominent tropes from the slave narrative to situate his experiences as an Afro-Cuban within a longer history, and broader geographic space, of violence against Afro-Diasporic peoples.
Who Speaks for Miami?
Authors: McInnis Tatiana D.
Published: May 2023

This chapter focuses on the Cuban influence on South Florida’s countless cinematic and literary representations with attention to Blackness and the construction of an ideal, white Cuban-American. The chapter analyzes how the racial demographic of the Mariel Boatlift, the War on Drugs, and anxieties about queerness are represented in Miami Vice and Scarface. Through selective analysis of these media, the chapter asserts that their hyperbolic conflation of violence, drugs, illicit economic ascent, and immigration codified Miami as a white American nightmare during the 1980s. Both the film and series rely on a strategic Brownness to entertain, entice, and approximate documenting, while simultaneously avoiding anxieties around the Black and mixed-race Mariel émigrés.
Introduction
Authors: Lahr-Vivaz Elena
Published: May 2023

The Introduction offers a brief overview of the book’s overarching argument and proposes the neologism “arcubiélago”: the term riffs on the Spanish archipiélago, at the same time that it incorporates a reference to Cuba, writ large, and invokes the spaces that Cuban writers craft both on the ground and in print. The Introduction also includes chapter summaries.
Rankling José Martí
Authors: Lahr-Vivaz Elena
Published: May 2023

Chapter Five considers exiled writer Antonio José Ponte’s essays on José Martí. Ponte, who has lived in Madrid since 2007, is known for his lucid nonfiction, as well as his short stories, novels, and poetry. While Ponte is associated with the space of exile, reading the author’s work through an archipelagic lens signals the connections between the myriad spaces of the arcubiélago from the nineteenth century to the present. Analyzing Ponte’s essays on José Martí alongside his work on ruins, the chapter makes the argument that the writer seeks to create a wider, archipelagic space in his writing. For example, when Ponte reappropriates Cuba’s national hero José Martí in his well-known essay titled “El abrigo de aire” [The Coat of Air] (2003), he suggests that the space of the Revolution is not closed and static, but, rather, that it must be rankled and remapped to remain relevant. The chapter also includes an analysis of Ponte’s other essays on Martí, as well as his short stories and work on the Diario de Cuba.
A Fast and Accurate Method for Classifying Tomato Plant Health Status Using Machine Learning and Image Processing
Authors: Ulutas Hasan , Aslantas Veysel
Published: May 2023

Agriculture is crucial to economic growth and development, and maintaining high-quality, disease-free plants is crucial to its success. Early detection of plant diseases, which can be caused by environmental factors, fungi, bacteria, and viruses, is essential to implement appropriate treatments. Tomatoes, which are one of the most vital food crops, are susceptible to diseases that can result in significant economic losses in agriculture.
This study introduces a method to evaluate the health of tomato leaf using image processing techniques and machine learning algorithms. A dataset of 1,778 images of healthy and infected tomato leaves was collected from tomato planting areas in the Turkish provinces of Samsun and Mersin. Sixteen advanced machine learning algorithms were used for classification, and the optimal hyperparameters for each algorithm were determined using a grid search approach. The classifiers were executed on Jetson Nano and TX2 embedded systems.
The experimental results indicate that the Random Forest classifier outperformed other algorithms, achieving approximately 99 % accuracy in detecting and classifying the health status of tomato leaves. The proposed system enables faster and more accurate detection, allowing farmers to classify plants as infected or healthy, ultimately improving decision-making on treatment and pest management strategies.
Dispatch Out of a Language I Used to Speak
Authors: Bauer Curtis
Published: May 2023

Day coming into the day. Thirty-two years ago

I would have been up and in a field, have worked already.

Sparrows and swallows. Maybe

a crow but not this cacophony.

Would have been corn and soybean rows.

Oats growing high and alfalfa near to be cut....
Table Talk
Authors: Morín Tomás Q.
Published: May 2023

One of the first scents I ever loved was wet cement. Sometimes my father would mix it all up in a wheelbarrow. Sand, water, cement. If he was touching up a house he had just built or just starting a new one, he would dump it all inside his mixer and pull it to the construction site....
Armory
Authors: Pennington Seth
Published: May 2023

The boy got out of the Marines to give himself

to God, to his wife, to the bullet factory eleven miles

outside a town outgrowing its one stoplight. Cars

pile up at shift change, block the highway. The ambulance drives

the shoulder when there is one, wails like something tied up, hungry....
The Holiness of Our Fathers
Authors: Mohyuddin Faisal
Published: May 2023

My father left us while I was elsewhere

because he’d been unemployed for nearly

15 months and knew, despite whatever

reassurances people reflexively offered,

his chances of finding decent work

as a 58-year-old who had never finished

college were much too slim to not look...
Second Attempt Crossing
Authors: Zamora Javier
Published: May 2023

For Chino

In the middle of that desert that didn’t look like sand

and sand only,

in the middle of those acacias, whiptails, and coyotes, someone yelled

“¡La Migra!” and everyone ran.

In that dried creek where 40 of us slept, we turned to each other...
The Gift
Authors: Vuong Ocean
Published: May 2023

a b c a b c a b c

She doesn’t know what comes after.

So we begin again:

a b c a b c a b c

But I can see the fourth letter:

a strand of black hair—unraveled

from the alphabet

& written

on her cheek.

Even now the nail salon...
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Saltine
Authors: Brown Nickole
Published: May 2023

Perforations is what they are,

but I didn’t know that word,

not back then. No, we just said

holes—thirteen of them, set up

like the board of that Cracker

Barrel game with a jar of colored

pegs to kill the time and quiet us kids...
On Mute
Authors: Sweatt Tony , Gipe Robert
Published: May 2023

September 20, 2021

Robert Gipe:

In 2003, Dr. Tony Sweatt and I interviewed his grandmother, Missouri Cottrell, at her home just outside Harlan, Kentucky, where Tony and I both live. Among other stories, Ms. Cottrell told us how as teenagers, she and her brothers ran a poker game for coal miners as a way of making money....
Statement of Teaching Philosophy
Authors: Leonard Keith
Published: May 2023

My students want certainty. They want it

so badly. They respect science and have memorized

complex formulas. I don’t know

how to tell my students their parents

are still just as scared. The bullies get bigger

and vaguer and you cannot punch a cloud.

I have eulogies for all my loved ones prepared,...
Work
Authors: Dawes Kwame
Published: May 2023

Five days to go: Working for the next day

—Bob Marley, “Work”

Look at this man’s hands, look

at the toughness in his fingers,

the way his nails darken at the edges,

the way his skin is marked

by old scars, the way his palms...
D.D.I.Y.
Authors: Williams Tyrone
Published: May 2023

Unlike cops and cabs

always on their way

he is already waiting

in a parking lot

with his Mercury

in idle, coughing

exhaust as he takes

another long drag

on a Camel,

squinting at

a racing form

until a door

swings open

and a cart...
Ghazal for Grandma’s Hands
Authors: Daughtry Darius V.
Published: May 2023

Floors, windows, toilets, pots and pans

painted lush landscapes on the back of Grandma’s hands.

Snowbirds squatting spot the spotless

work on baseboards and basins scrubbed by Grandma’s hands.

Warrior woman worked for pennies traded for

beans and fatback that became magic in weary hands....
Family Musings, Matriliny, and Legacy
Authors: Hopson Cheryl R.
Published: May 2023

I as a Black Queer feminist poet, professor, and scholar seek the roots of my ascension from lower middle class to a shifting and commingled middle and intellectual class, through an exploration of my maternal line.

My mother was the beneficiary of a financial inheritance from her maternal great-uncle Walter that provided for her education and left her with a sum of money....
: the making of {#289-128} in five parts
Authors: Horton Randall
Published: May 2023

*

you will be arrested & sequestered

as property of the state as {#289-128}

a beetle

in a darlingtonia

might be more accurate.

*

each day/month/year builds to a question

the response known before the query

again      & again

disbelief is futile

on rehabilitation

you wait      & …       wait—...
Ars Poetica
Authors: Lovelace Nabila
Published: May 2023

prison labor meshes  your gym shorts

prison labor freezes  your frozen potatoes

prison labor lacquered your new door

prison labor saved   your neighbors’ burning house

prison labor twines the book

you read this from

prison labor fed your cat &

your favorite street strays

prison labor plasticized your emergency float under-...
I Confess
Authors: Hansel Pauletta
Published: May 2023

July 5, 2019

These days I think too much

about assassination, and let me just say

I have come down against it every time,

swatting it away, a plague-ridden fly

in my otherwise mild and law-abiding imagination,

and I do not accept the legal argument...
Questionnaire
Authors: Berry Wendell
Published: May 2023

1. How much poison are you willing

to eat for the success of the free

market and global trade? Please

name your preferred poisons.

2. For the sake of goodness, how much

evil are you willing to do?

Fill in the following blanks

with the names of your favorite...
My Mother, My Mother
Authors: Hughes Luther
Published: May 2023

When I was a child I would run

through the backyard while my father

yanked dandelions, daisies, thistles, crabgrass,

mowed, rearranged the stones around the porch—

the task of men, though I didn’t know.

Blushed with cartoons and chocolate milk

one Saturday, I found a bee working...
After a Hard Time
Authors: Scafidi Steve
Published: May 2023

Just getting away from the town enough

to only barely hear the industry of hammers

and engines muted in the distance by

wind in pines and crows chasing a hawk

is essential every day of a man’s life.

I am up on the hill behind the cabinet shop...
Poem in Furrows
Authors: Cancio-Bello Marci Calabretta
Published: May 2023

Not like my grandfather’s labor, smoking pork

or selling horses, barebacked and bronze.

Nor like digging soil for a handful of lima

beans swaying on the stalk, hard and ready.

But it is work of a kind, the way we rake words

into the light like potatoes, threads at our elbows...
Necessary Weight, Necessary Time
Authors: James  , Braziel Tina Mozelle
Published: May 2023

My hands hurt all the time now. I sleep on them in ways that pull my arms ready to strike nails with a hammer, push the bar of a chainsaw through the dark rings of a tree. I get up—can’t sleep good like this—tell my hands to relax, and tell myself, “The nails will get driven tomorrow. The firewood will get cut, and we’ll be warm in winter.” The rest of the night I’m half-dreaming under a moon our skylight shows as a bright nickel in one corner, hours later as a dime above my feet, but the ache won’t quit....
I Am Bound for de Kingdom
Authors: Dekine Marlanda
Published: May 2023

My granddaddy Silas was born on the Nightingale plantation

in Plantersville, South Carolina, on riverbanks that loved

three generations of my kin, captured

in a green-tinted photograph, hanging in my daddy’s den.

Tonight, my eyes will take each old-world bird from the cropped space,

send them home with their songs and favorite foods....
Truck Stop
Authors: Rocha Iliana
Published: May 2023

Like

that afternoon when my basset hound went

missing, Daisy escaped what we all wanted to—

dull end of my father’s boot,

lethal floral disc.

I saw her imprint on Highway 59,

careless work of a Chevy’s tire,

in the time before I learned what it meant...
For God So Loved the World He Gave Us Vision
Authors: King Bill
Published: May 2023

Outside, that is, on TV, the President bellows beside

a helicopter about China and the farmers of America

who are so great they will chop plants into the dirt

instead of harvesting the beans.

Because what farm girl does not dream of becoming

“permanently entwined with both politics and export...
Model
Authors: Kunz Edgar
Published: May 2023

In a button-up and jeans I pretend

to pump unleaded into a rented Civic.

In a peacoat and slacks I pretend

to pump premium into a rented Benz.

Inside, I stock the already-stocked

shelves: Sun Chips and Snickers,

jumbo packs of bottled water, Powerade,

Coke. I wear an XXL polo with the excess...
Most Skin Hit Road
Authors: Romero Levi
Published: May 2023

the visiting community-activist contingency

comes into her home as invited guests

politely invading her life with

gift baskets of hugs, laughter, and

you’re looking great! salutations

their warm blessings filling the room

with wide-open arm offerings of good conversation

and quick-comeback humorous anecdotes

to transport her past nagging thoughts...
At War with Ourselves
Authors: Finney Nikky
Published: May 2023

On the occasion of the public slaughter of Tamir Rice, by a man sworn to protect and serve who refused to see a Black boy at play

In 1851 he is stopped and frisked, then packed down

in the ice of iron at the bottom of the ...
American Interrogation
Authors: Borland Bryan
Published: May 2023

Each night the moon is larger

the quarterly profits grow   we make

more money than ever before   pay less in taxes

talk of buying new shoes   another jacket

we want to ask the woman who wears a blanket her name

a food she loves   mashed potatoes and gravy...
Behind You
Authors: Shores-Argüello Jacob
Published: May 2023

When I was young and had to rise at 5 a.m.

I did not look at the lamplight slicing

through the blinds and say: Once again

I have survived the night. I did not raise

my two hands to my face and whisper:...
300
Authors: Montilla Yesenia
Published: May 2023

My brother tells me he has spent over 300 on cigarettes this month alone—for my mom—who when out of them lays in bed with the covers pulled to her chin, all the shades down. He says: I’ve asked her repeatedly to just smoke one, whenever she feels she’s about to lose it; the way we’re going, I don’t know if I can keep this up....
The Night after You Lose Your Job
Authors: Kuan Debora
Published: May 2023

You know sleep will dart beyond your grasp. Its edges

crude and merciless. You will clutch at straws,

wandering the cold, peopled rooms of

the Internet, desperate for any fix. A

vapor of faith. An amply paid gig, perhaps,

for simply having an earnest heart or...
My Mother Told Us Not to Have Children
Authors: Howell Rebecca Gayle
Published: May 2023

She’d say, Never have a child you don’t want.

Then she’d say, Of course, I wanted you

once you were here. She’s not cruel. Just practical,

like a kitchen knife. Still, the blade. And care.

When she washed my hair, she hurt. Her nails

rooting my thick curls, the water rushing hard....
Mineshaft Dream
Authors: Ostriker Alicia Suskin
Published: May 2023

I push a button and the cage glides down

to the sub-basement and further

streaked red walls slide past

at least it is warm

the iron grate is painted glossy black

the descent is taking a long time I notice

everything vibrates, there comes

the sound of a stream rushing somewhere...
Factory
Authors: Sok Monica
Published: May 2023

We stack wafers the length of our arms,

inspect the chocolate coats in half-hour rotations.

You’ve eaten Kit Kats before. You’ve snuck them

from the closet, hidden next to your aunt’s sewing kit

and a game called Trouble. But this is not about

taking what you can get without getting caught....
Lucky
Authors: Van Gundy Doug
Published: May 2023

My people crawled up from underground, birthed

into the failing sun of West Virginia and western

Pennsylvania six days a week, eyes blinking, even in dim

winter, adjusting to a light brighter than the one still burning

on their own forehead. Every home in every little town...
Penitential
Authors: Van Clief-Stefanon Lyrae
Published: May 2023

with drinking

with the middle of June in February

with ice and slick blackened surfaces

with a mistake

with endurance

with Jodeci because you cannot hear

“Stay” without Jodeci

“and sober we stayed”

with interest

with departure

with fighting and sex

with modesty

Where are we with modesty?...
Snow, Rain, Heat, Pandemic, Gloom of Night
Authors: Wong Jane
Published: May 2023

The post office doesn’t have clocks.

Waiting in line, I can feel everyone’s tension and anger stewing, leaking out of their pores like gasoline. The air fills with the soup of impatience.

There are five people ahead of me. I take it all in: the tapping of a high-heeled shoe, the exaggerated checking of a watch, the shifting of packages from one arm to the other. The line moves and a woman steps up to the counter with her face mask on wrong. It flops down below her nose like loose pantyhose. She keeps touching her mask. Not to adjust it to the correct position, just to touch it. Then she slams her pocketbook down on the counter like she’s crushing a cockroach and shouts at the clerk: “Do you know how long I’ve been waiting in this fucking line?”...
my mom makes friends with the nurses
Authors: Sapigao Janice Lobo
Published: May 2023

my mom makes friends with the nurses / and together they make a country / she brings them food / and together they are a farm / a restaurant without pricing / a secret menu / i eat with her / at a station labeled “17” or “Room A” depending on the availability / and we are alone / in a sterile hotel without walls but curtains / a luxury without the privilege / each guest is a room open and observable / the nurses / they eat her food in a break room / without us / my mom and her new friends / eat lunch in separation / they are two countries apart / a people, divided / a nation under no god / no mercy / i believe in my mother / the maker of the bombest / adobo and rice / of spaghetti and hot dogs / of vienna sausages / the nurses pledge allegiance / to their patients / their indivisible labor / when we call for someone to come help us / anyone / a nurse comes quickly / comes running / when a machine beeps out of rhythm in our church / nurses, they are the conductors / with answers / priests to a symphony / signing / singing / all the liquids with long names / they call for the gowns / washed and warm / with liberty and phone calls / with medicine everlasting / the diaspora almighty / and on the last day of chemo / the nurses take pictures / & selfies with my mother, / creator of pinakbet and lumpiang shanghai / the nurses are profiled, memorialized, and merry / let her be healed / and if we never come back here / to infusion or oncology / let it be wholly / in the nurses’ names / amen...
The Horns of Horns Valley Moved from Alabama to Arkansas, Gained an “e,” and I Returned Three Generations Later for Graduate School in Creative Writing, of All Things
Authors: Horne Jennifer
Published: May 2023

(In Memoriam, Allan Wade Horne, 1932–2018)

You

the first of eight

to graduate

high school

your four brothers

and three sisters

starting work early

working hard

proud

so proud

of their

little brother

a little awed later

when you’d

done so well

your mamma

the seamstress...
An Hour with an Etruscan Sarcophagus
Authors: McDonough Jill
Published: May 2023

Not the carved seals or gold libation cups,

mummies, alabaster urns. Two minutes

alone with this Etruscan sarcophagus and I’m

in tears. Nobody saw; I totally got away with it.

Something about the stonecutter’s wife, I think—

not the rich couple together in stone forever, not even...
The Way Taken
Authors: McLarney Rose
Published: May 2023

A waterfall impedes travel, and a mountain slows.

A straight line measure of mileage between points tells

little of how a walker moved on land with such features.

We are unable to fly. What humans can choose is not

to cross streams or ridges in a straight shot, though...
Intimate Detail
Authors: Erdrich Heid E.
Published: May 2023

Late summer, late afternoon, my work

interrupted by bees who claim my tea,

even my pen looks flower-good to them.

I warn a delivery man that my bees,

who all summer have been tame as cows,

now grow frantic, aggressive, difficult to shoo

from the house. I blame the second blooms...
Idle Men on Porches
Authors: Hague Richard
Published: May 2023

No work in this universe,

it seems.

So what do we talk about all day?

Whose cousin was killed?

Whose wife is long gone?

Whose son hanged himself

in jail?

Whose father is never

mentioned?

Whose cells are broken

with crack?

Whose mouths this morning...
American Income
Authors: Weaver Afaa Michael
Published: May 2023

The survey says all groups can make more money

if they lose weight except Black men … men of other colors

and women of all colors have more gold, but Black men

are the summary of weight, a lead thick thing on the scales,

meters spinning until they ring off the end of the numbering...
May Frick Be Damned
Authors: Stern Gerald
Published: May 2023

In Pittsburgh we used to say, “Tomorrow we strike,

go home, make babies,” but always with a Polish

accent and the bars were crowded at ten

in the morning. I for one was stopped once

walking on an empty street downtown

with no reason for being there—I had...
Burden of Belonging
Authors: Engel Laura Eve
Published: May 2023

—Inauguration Day, January 20, 2017

Today we are grieving our nation’s

peaceful transition of power

what we are really saying is we’re scared

about how many of us

choose not to recognize

we depend on one another

to stay whole and unhurt

I am responsible for you...
Foreday in the Morning
Authors: Brown Jericho
Published: May 2023

My mother grew morning glories that spilled onto the walkway toward her porch

Because she was a woman with land who showed as much by giving it color.

She told me I could have whatever I worked for. That means she was an American.

But she’d say it was because she believed...
Restraining Air Power
Authors: Owen Robert C. , Berman Lazar , Lambeth Benjamin S. , Morgan Forrest E. , Paget Steven
Published: May 2023

Is it possible for two combatants who possess equally strong air forces to conduct limited warfare by restraining air operations? In Restraining Air Power, Robert C. Owen and contributing authors aim to answer this question by providing theoretical and empirical assessments of restrained air warfare through five historical case studies since 1945. Through an objective analysis of the past, this collection evaluates the principles of escalation and escalation management in conventional warfare scenarios to better understand when, why, and how peer opponents in past conflicts have expanded or restrained air operations.
The surge in cyber warfare, the development of artificially intelligent weaponry, and the founding of the United States Space Force in 2019 mean that analysts and military planners must be prepared to think about escalation management and peer conflict in increasingly complicated and arduous ways. This comprehensive study provides readers with refined theoretical visions of the possibilities and challenges of managing escalation as a powerful mode of warfare between opponents who believe they must choose between sacrificing their own national interests or risking escalated destruction of their economies, military forces, and governing authority. The analysis within the pages of this volume updates our understanding of air warfare within a world of unprecedented military complexity and, as such, will hold immense value for specialists in advanced military studies as well as those studying international relations and history.
A Distant Mirror
Authors: Owen Robert C.
Published: May 2023

This chapter examines the Sagebrush theater nuclear war exercise of 1955. The author argues that modern weapons of mass effect likely will exert much the same escalatory pressures as did perceptions at the time of Sagebrush of the likely effects of tactical atomic weapons. Based on the operational concepts and plans expressed at the time USAF leaders assessed that the potential decisiveness of atomic weapons drove a logic of preemption to blunt or even prevent enemy retaliations. The present implication is that posturing conventional weapons of mass effect could trigger preemptive responses from enemies that leaders hoped to deter.
The Angolan War 1975–1988
Authors: Owen Robert C.
Published: May 2023

Examines a three-way air war between Angola and Cuba on the one side and South Africa on the other. The study juxtaposes an essentially cautious, peoples-war approach of the Cubans and, to a lesser extent, the Angolan's, and a more aggressive and militarily competent approach of the South Africans to escalation. In the end, the author contends that, while the Cuban/Angolan alliance was stronger militarily, it backed away from escalation for domestic political reasons, while the South Africans were held back by domestic concerns, a momentarily weak military position, and global diplomatic and economic isolation.
The “Live Issue” of Black Women Voters in Kentucky
Authors: Goan Melanie Beals
Published: May 2023

This chapter chronicles Black women's activism within the context of the Kentucky suffrage movement. Black women were active in their churches and schools, and protested segregation laws on railroads. Black women demonstrated a desire to vote before and after the ratification of the 19th amendment.
The Picture Player
Authors: Drew William M.
Published: May 2023

The chapter relates Pearl's first years in the cinema (1910-1912) and how she quickly became a popular screen player, indeed one of the movies' very first stars, as she worked in turn with the Powers, Lubin and Pathe companies, all based on the East Coast, developing her technique as an actress for the new medium.
The House of Hate
Authors: Drew William M.
Published: May 2023

Concerned with the 1918 serial that represents perhaps the peak of Pearl's achievement in that genre, the chapter describes its production and its subsequent influence on the great Soviet filmmakers including Eisenstein. It also discusses Pearl's concern for the immigrants in urban America as well as her involvement in activities at the conclusion of World War I.
The Year of Change
Authors: Drew William M.
Published: May 2023

This covers the sweeping transformations of the tumultuous postwar year of 1919 and their effect on Pearl's life. Topics inclnde Pearl's secret marriage to Wallace McCutcheon, her acquisition of a baronial estate on Long Island, her consideration of a career in politics following the victory for woman suffrage, her involvement in the famous Actors Equity strike in consonance with her pro-labor views, and her public opposition to the conservative moralists of the time.