Can Atrocity Be the Subject Matter of Poetry?

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Robyn Creswell, The New Yorker
Creswell writes: "Carolyn Forché's prose poem 'The Colonel' was published in 'The Country Between Us' (1981), a volume whose best-known poems concern the civil war in El Salvador."
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Andy Borowitz | Polar Bears, Grizzlies to Merge

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "In what observers are calling the largest merger ever between two species of mammal capable of mauling humans to death, polar bears and grizzly bears announced on Friday that they were joining forces in a friendly acquisition."
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Texas Suspends First Doctor Under New Abortion Law
Reuters
Excerpt: "Texas has suspended a Houston doctor's license for performing abortions without getting privileges to admit patients to a nearby hospital, the first such move under a new state abortion law that went into effect last year."
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Ralph Nader | The Activist Awards
Ralph Nader, The Nader Page
Nader writes: "The annual Academy Awards GALA, viewed by one billion people worldwide, is scheduled for the evening of March 2, 2014...Now suppose our country had another Academy Awards GALA for citizen heroes."
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Iraq's Moqtada al-Sadr Steps Away From Politics
Saad Fakhreddin, Agence France-Presse
Fakhreddin reports: "Powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, leader of a major political movement and a key figure in post-Saddam Iraq, has announced his exit from politics two months before elections."
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The Story Behind the Massive Student Protests in Venezuela
Zack Beauchamp, ThinkProgress
Beauchamp reports: "In defiance of President Nicholas Maduro's ban on public protest, Venezeulans gathered around the country on Friday to protest creeping authoritarianism, devastating inflation, and skyrocketing crime."
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Jim Hightower | Shouldn't Natural Food Actually Be Natural?
Jim Hightower, JimHightower.com
Hightower writes: "PepsiCo settled one of its cases last year by paying out $9 million to the challengers and agreeing to stop labeling its Naked Juice brand as 'all natural.'"
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What's Next for Grizzly Bears?
Erin Edge, Defender's Blog
Edge writes: "After more than 10 years working on grizzly bear conservation issues I am not surprised that the largest threat to grizzly bears remains human caused deaths."
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