Mark Dow
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Author of Plain Talk Rising (poems) and American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons.
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Federal Immigration Agents Won't Take Their Masks Off After Mardi Gras | Common Dreams
ICE and the Border Patrol are concealing their faces to try and protect themselves—from accountability.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/ice-masks-off
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“These totally remarkable renderings – I won’t even say translations – of the superb French Surrealist poet, Philippe Soupault, are nothing short of miraculous." (Mary Ann Caws)
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Philippe Soupault - Serving House Books
https://servinghousebooks.com/philippe-soupault/
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Manhattan, Sept. 25, 2025.
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The CoreCivic employee's i.d. badge hangs from a purple lanyard with white lettering: "CoreCivic Diversity Equity Inclusion."
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'There Is No Law': Scenes From a Houston Immigration Court in Trump's America | Common Dreams
On August 29, US District Judge Jia M. Cobb wrote, "The Supreme Court has therefore 'long held that no person shall be removed from the United States' without due process of law." Will the administrat...
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/houston-immigration-court-trump
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Houston, South Gessner immigration court building (Alliance Tower) in the background. June 2025.
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'There Is No Law': Scenes From a Houston Immigration Court
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'There Is No Law': Scenes From a Houston Immigration Court in Trump's America | Common Dreams
On August 29, US District Judge Jia M. Cobb wrote, "The Supreme Court has therefore 'long held that no person shall be removed from the United States' without due process of law." Will the administrat...
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/houston-immigration-court-trump
6 months ago
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Houston, June 13, 2025. Outside CoreCivic/ICE immigration prison. (Que viva Mount Pleasant.)
7 months ago
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Reporter Sean Carlson just repeated DHS propaganda that Bklyn high schooler Mamadou Diallo entered illegally. DHS also says he "was released into our country by the Biden administration."
@wnyc.org
fails to grasp that the admin. is trying to make "legal" into "illegal."
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7 months ago
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7 months ago
any poetry loving friends close to Hudson NY, here's an interesting upcoming event at Flow Chart:
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Philippe Soupault, Poetry, Prose, and Interviews
Gregg Ellis will read from his new book of translations of Soupault’s poems and prose followed by a conversation around surrealist poetry.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/philippe-soupault-poetry-prose-and-interviews-tickets-1538678401519?aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail&ref=eemail&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eventbrite
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Mark Dow
7 months ago
check out my post on Garth Greenwell's Small Rain, with thanks to Kevin Pask and Mark Dow, editors extraordinares:
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Small Rain and Verbal Power
Contributed by Marcie Frank, Professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the author of The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen; How to be an Intelle…
https://westronwynde750443069.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/271/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMAqHRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFDUFoyR081cHpGcWJ0WHNKAR7sFrFe2qaDvPrADS72tET-yPPJxdA0LEYHYGqj-dsOIMCdW8q10OfYme1xJg_aem_S9TeKwhcY5ezGxuMRGDzfw
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"'New spaces in our interiors,'" wherein Marcie Frank talks Garth Greenwell talking Westron Wynde on the Westron Wynde Blog --
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Small Rain and Verbal Power
Contributed by Marcie Frank, Professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the author of The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen; How to be an Intelle…
https://wp.me/pdGQAs-4n
7 months ago
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July 18, 2025.
7 months ago
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Demonstration outside ICE/CoreCivic immigration prison. Houston, June 13, 2025.
8 months ago
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9 months ago
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Index Card Poems by Mark Dow on Vimeo
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10 months ago
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With thanks to editor Jonathan Minton. Index Card Poems
www.wordforword.info/vol44/Dow.html
10 months ago
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Mark Dow
PN Review
11 months ago
Also featuring: Mark Dow’s remembrances of October in Sacramento (2022) David Herman on the late Ahron Appelfeld An excerpt from Philip Terry’s What is Poetry? Gregory Woods on Coding and Gendering Woods's essay is free to read here:
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You need a subscription, but it's there...
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PN Review Print and Online Poetry Magazine - October in Sacramento (2022) - Mark Dow - PN Review 282
This article is taken from PN Review 282, Volume 51 Number 4, March - April 2025.
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10 months ago
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The mechanics of kidnapping: How ICE is imprisoning Rumeysa Ozturk
For decades, ICE has exploited its decentralized network of detention centers to keep immigration prisoners away from their lawyers, families and support networks, as well as from courts that are m…
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5258058-how-ice-is-gaming-the-system-to-keep-rumeysa-ozturk-in-prison/
11 months ago
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Glad to be there.
add a skeleton here at some point
11 months ago
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Mark Dow
Common Dreams
11 months ago
The longstanding principles of U.S.detention and deportation policy—dehumanization of the immigrants and unchecked power for their guards and deporters—have metastasized under the Trump-Vance plan.
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Dehumanization and Protest: Miami's Krome Detention Center and Beyond | Common Dreams
Demonstrators from Miami to Tacoma support immigrants detained by ICE.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/protest-immigration-detention
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Dehumanization and Protest: Miami's Krome Detention Center and Beyond
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Dehumanization and Protest: Miami's Krome Detention Center and Beyond | Common Dreams
Demonstrators from Miami to Tacoma support immigrants detained by ICE.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/protest-immigration-detention
11 months ago
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