Tag: Dead Herring Prize

• “Generational wealth” – Sarah B. Cahalan

  

  Someone’s doing archaeology in the sand againdigging up old saltworks, a meeting house,taverns with motels on top.With little brushes, they reveal the bonesof stranded pilot whales:The stench must have hung for months,the things-that-feast-on-whales rejoicing,raccoons and gulls and clouds of flies,stockpiling fat for later. The swarms of people who’ve made claimto lands that wash awayare biomass…

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  December 11, 2023

  Dead Herring Prize, Poems

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• Announcing the Winner of The Dead Herring Prize

  

  In the land of the Lotus Eaters, it’s easy to lose sight of what’s important to us because we spend so much of our lives in support of responsibilities which, let’s be honest, are nothing more than means to an end: money. In pursuit of the almighty Dollar, we become impatient, irritable, anxious, despondent, and…

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  December 11, 2023

  Dead Herring Prize

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