This week, Al (algahman@gmail.com) and I, Imogen Arate (https://poetsandmuses.com/imogen-arate/), discuss our respective poems, "Reaped" and "Not Yet," and unwanted births.
You can read Al's poems here:
1. "Reaped" (https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2019/05/reaped.html)
2. "Shadow Dance" (https://www.cathexisnorthwestpress.com/shadowdance)
3. "The Man Who Died Twice" (https://www.delugejournal.com/uploads/3/4/8/8/34888906/deluge_5.1_final.pdf (page 90))
Take a listen to also find out about poetry events taking place in the valley during the week of March 9th.
Photo of Al Fournier provided by Al Fournier
Links to topics we touched on:
1. Alabama anti-abortion law: https://www.vox.com/2019/10/2/20895034/alabama-abortion-ban-blocked-georgia-law
2. Amount of sperm in each ejaculation: https://www.livescience.com/32437-why-are-250-million-sperm-cells-released-during-sex.html
3. Prison labor in the US: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-labor-in-america/406177/ and https://confluence.gallatin.nyu.edu/context/interdisciplinary-seminar/prison-labor-in-the-united-states
4. Restoring voting rights to Floridians with felony convictions: https://www.npr.org/2020/01/08/794089324/florida-faces-a-rocky-rollout-to-restore-voting-rights-after-felony-convictions
5. Neutron bombs: https://www.britannica.com/technology/neutron-bomb
6. Chemical castrations: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48593699
7. Effectiveness of castration as a deterrent to sexual predation: https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=93947&page=1
8. The invention of writing: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/how-humans-invented-writing-four-different-times
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