Matter

A monthly journal of political poetry and commentary // May 1st 2013

[Matter @MatterMonthly]

Issue 10, featuring work by Daniel Borzutsky, Lisa Ampleman, AD Jameson, Kristina Marie Darling, Cory Van Landingham! http://t.co/idNr3hQKOz

[Benjamin Schmitt @poetbenwrites]

New work @MatterMonthly!: http://t.co/oeuXnO5V73

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Tonight & every Saturday night, many women are unsafe, unable to leave; please help reduce that number by helping to improve their resources

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If you're feeling safe & grateful, please consider passing it on to the Domestic Violence Relief Fund, c/o @katlaine https://t.co/z0ThUKT6Dw

[Poetry Foundation @PoetryFound]

A discussion, now a remembrance, with #MarkStrand and Renee Fleming on 10/8/14 http://t.co/sRDrk9Wqkz

[Ayesha A. Siddiqi @AyeshaASiddiqi]

wish media would stop saying 'violence has erupted in ferguson' violence was brought to ferguson when a cop shot 18 yr old Mike Brown

[Jordan Stead @jordanbstead]

Protesters take to the #Seattle streets to block traffic in a "die in" in response to #Ferguson ruling. #MichaelBrown

[Sarah Sophie Flicker @sarahsophief]

"The law is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my murderer." -James Baldwin, 1966

[rigatoni jones @versace_summer]

hey, don't forget that darren wilson received $430,000 untaxed "charitable donations" for killing mike brown. let that settle in. #Ferguson

[NYT National News @NYTNational]

Protesters march up Seventh Avenue in New York City, following the grand jury decision in Ferguson.

[Yousef Munayyer @YousefMunayyer]

Serve and Protect or Seek and Destroy? Wouldn't want anyone to get the wrong message at a time like this. http://t.co/S38oeIbT1h

[NPR @NPR]

Seeing reports on Twitter of sizable protests in New York, Chicago, Seattle, Oakland.

[FOX2now @FOX2now]

Fires on S. Florissant Road as police respond to challenges by protestors. #Smoke has been deployed. #Ferguson

[Glenn Shaheen @GlennShaheen]

The police are angry at social media because it means the days are numbered that they can still get away with this shit.

[Jay Smooth @jsmooth995]

The fundamental danger of a non-indictment is not more riots, it is more Darren Wilsons.

[Elly Park @ellypark07]

Black Lives Matter in Union Square. #BlackLivesMatter #FergusonDecision

[Tracee Carrasco @CarrascoTV]

Protestors now storming the streets of #NYC.

[🔭Rosebud Ben-Oni 🚀 @RosebudBenOni]

When others call for peace, it's really "suppress your outrage & move on;" this is what I felt in east Jerusalem. Won't hashtag that tonight