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Below are poetic expressions of Yohannes Sharriff Smith and the artistic expressions of others from around the world and throughout history. For a brief bio on our poet in residence, Yohannes, click on Directors. His poetic insights, as well as the artistic contributions of others, intuitively capture the messages of particular issues of The DISH.

Volume 15 ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª 2012

Issue 1 Dr. Paul on the Record

Jones v. Van Zandt (1847) Issue 3

Issue 4 Iran and the Terrorism Game…By Glenn Greenwald

Wall Street Was a Slave Market…By Alan Singer Issue 5

Volume 14 ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª 2011

Issue 1 The War Is Over…By Phil Ochs

What Are You Fighting For…By Phil Ochs Issue 2

Issue 3 Birmingham Sunday…By Richard Farina

Something's in the Garden…By Phil Vernon Issue 4

Issue 6 Ready to Kill…By Carl Sandburg

The Chain…By John Pierpont (1785 - 1866) Issue 8

Issue 9 Everything Must Go…By Steely Dan

The Oil of Progress…By Chris Rhodes Issue 10

Issue 11 Degrees and Dollars…By Paul Krugman

Losing Ground…By Tyrone Wells Issue 12

Issue 14 NC Senate Weighs a Holden Pardon

The Song of Education…G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) Issue 15

Issue 16 Let America Be America Again…By Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

The Terrible Myth…By William Kunstler…Issue 17

Issue 19 Mercy, Mercy Me…Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. (1939 -1984)

Don't Make Me Play the Victim…By Andy Morley Issue 20

Issue 21 White Flight…By Robert B. Cooke

Eight Pardons Issue 22

Issue 23 Winter in America…By Gil Scott Heron

In Age of Obama, Blacks Suffering Most…By Gary Younge Issue 25

Issue 26 Ode to Public Transportation…By Someone072

Blind Justice…By Steve C. Bolton Issue 27

Issue 28 Save the Children…By Al Cleveland/Marvin Gaye/Renaldo Benson

What is Social Security? Issue 29

Issue 30 How to Succeed at a Summer Job: Look White and Christian (Excerpts)…By Jamilah King

A Legacy in Rust…By TC Leonard Issue 31

Issue 32 Priceless: Safer in Prison? (Excerpts)…By Rae Gomes

Blacks and Obama (Excerpts)…By Sharon Kyle Issue 33

Issue 34 Blaming Poverty on the Poor…By Josephine Dixon-Banks

A Dream Deferred…By Langston Hughes Issue 35

Issue 36 Eugenics Justice

Gaza's Illiad Issue 37

Issue 38 America Today: 'Tent City'…By Robert Johnson
Obama at AIPAC Conference 2011 (Excerpts) Issue 39

Issue 40 Is Racism Worse in the Age of Obama?...By Keli Goff

Despite Concerns Children Allowed to Return Issue 41

Issue 42 Stock Markets Need More Scrutiny…By Diane Francis

Food and Climate Change Issue 44

Issue 45 Sheeple of America…By Payday Monsanto

Occupy Birthright Israel, Un-Occupy Palestine…The Young Jewish Declaration Issue 46

Issue 47 Perfecting a More Perfect Union…By Colonel Morris Davis

Home, Sweet Home…By John Howard Payne (1791-1852) Issue 48

Issue 49 Interview with Arundhati Roy (Excerpts)…By Arun Gupta

After Fukushima: Enough Is Enough…By Helen Caldicott Issue 50

Issue 51 Multiple Intelligences

Ya Strugglin'…By KRS-One Issue 52

Volume 13 ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª 2010

Issue 1 Phenomenal Woman…By Maya Angelou (1978)

Banjos Playing Through the Broken Glass (Excerpts)…By David Glenn Cox Issue 2

Issue 3 My Name is Cocaine…By Desiree Kimbrue

Colonies Still? … By Mumia Abu-Jamal… Issue 4

Issue 5 We Wear the Mask…Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

Dawn…By M. Ivana Trevisani Bach Issue 6

Issue 7 Deep Fat…By Stephen Blumenkranz

The Falling of Freedom Fighters…By Roque Dalton Issue 9

The Revolutionary …By Alvin Aubert…Issue 10

Issue 11 Propaganda (Excerpts)…By Dead Prez

Stand !...By Sly and the Family Stone Issue 12

Issue 13 Slave Descendants in South America…By John Burl Smith

Race and the Obama Administration…By Danny Glover Issue 14

Issue 15 Racism Still Sadly Continues…By Amit Chubbah

Imagine If the Tea Party Was Black…By Tim Wise Issue 19

Issue 20 "Modern Food"…By Daniel J Towsey

Francafrique and the Global Econ Crisis…By Pa Njakri Issue 22

Issue 23 "Rachel Corrie"…By Ten Foot Pole

Reluctant Passenger…By Peter Wyton Issue 26

Issue 27 Myth of the Day: Benefits Make People Lazy…By Alexander C. Hart

Live Your Life…Shawnee Chief Tecumseh (1768-1813) Issue 28

Issue 29 1 Corinthians 13…King James Version

Where Race Isn't Off-Limits…By Jamelle Bouie Issue 31

Issue 32 "Taking Advantage of Low Labor Costs Abroad"…By David Sirota

Perhaps the World Ends Here…By Joy Harjo Issue 34

Issue 35 Beautiful Black Child…By Yohannes Sharriff Smith

The Awful Price for Teaching Less Than We Know Issue 36

Issue 37 Deception…By Jesse Tampa

A Worker Reads History…By Bertolt Brecht Issue 38

Issue 39 Betrayal…By Frank P. Whyte

World of Work 2010 Issue 40

Issue 41 What Religion…By Raja Chemayel

The Sleepwalkers…By Maya Barzilai Issue 42

Issue 43 The Search for Answers

Israeli Society Shaped by Borders…By Matti Friedman Issue 44

Issue 45 The Untold Crisis of the Recession…By Sophia A. Nelson

1923 College-Town Lynching…By Alan Scher Zagier Issue 46

Issue 47 Ah, the Temptation…By Nicholas Gordon

Rastafarianism: One Man's Religion Issue 48

Issue 49 Slavery by Another Name…By John Burl Smith

No Struggle, No Progress…By Frederick Douglass (1857) Issue 50

Issue 52 Free America…By Anonymous

Free America…By Anonymous Issue 52

Volume 12 ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª 2009

ªIssue 1 America’s New Year Resolution: Stop Being Stupid By Bob Herbertª

ªIssue 2 Inner City Blues By Marvin Gaye and James Nyxª

ªIssue 3 Humility By John Wiegleyª

ªIssue 4 Healthcare By Jackie Strikeª

ªIssue 5 It’s A New Day By Will I Am Issue 5ª

ªIssue 9 Haiti the Rebel By Michel Sanonª

ªPatriot Act (Good Morning America) By Yohannes Sharriff Issue 14ª

ªA Poem for Parents…By Mary Beth Stanley Issue 16ª

ªIssue 17 Quicksand By Crystal Dawn ª

What Color is That Baby?...By Bob Herbert Issue 20

Issue 22 He’s A Metrosexual…By Stuart McArthur

Issue 25 Aspartame: Pregnant Women, Infants and Children …By H.J. Roberts, MD

Recession! What Recession…By Ivor E. Hogg Issue 26

Race to the Bottom (Excerpt)…By Drew Westen Issue 27

Issue 30 Booker T. & W.E.B…..By Dudley Randall

An Untaught Moment: Give Him a Chance…By Pocketslam Issue 31

Issue 33 Terrorists…By Thomas Hubbard

Don’t Quit…By Anonymous Issue 35

Issue 36 Dog Justice…By Mary Neal

Rogue States…By Mumia Abu-Jamal Issue 37

Issue 38 Happy Constitution Day (1709-2009)

Exporting Democracy…By Mumia Abu-Jamal Issue 40

Issue 42 On Warfare and Profits…By Smedley D. Butler

Living for the City…By Stevie Wonder Issue 44

Issue 45 Should Some Teenagers Die in Prison?...By Liliana Segura

Turn, Turn, Turn…By Pete Seeger Issue 46

Issue 47 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee…Songwriters: Sainte-Marie and Buffy

Performed By Indigo Girls

Are You Gonna Go My Way…By Lenny Kravitz Issue 48

Issue 50 The Cold Within…By James Patrick Kinney

Sick and Tired…By Dot Issue 51

Issue 52 Remember My Forgotten Man…By E.Y. Harburg/Jay Gorney (1932)

Volume 11 ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª 2008

ªIssue 1 Ode to the White Blood Cell…By Daisy and Jessica Mashª

Issue 2 Remembering A Life…By Nordette Adams

Issue 3 Changing of the Guard…By Yohannes Sharriff

Issue 4 Paul Bogle…By Abdel Wright

Issue 5 Inner City Blues…By Marvin Gaye

Issue 6 Everything Must Change…By Benard Ighner

Issue 7 Apology…By Tina K

Issue 9 Bid ‘Em In …By Oscar Brown, Jr.

Issue 10 New World Order…By Curtis Mayfield

Issue 11 Where Have All the Flowers Gone…By Pete Seeger

Issue 12 A Black American…By Smokey Robinson

Issue 13 School: 1957 vs. 2007…By Anonymous

Until Then…By Memphis Blue Issue 14

Up! Education…By Sylvia Child Issue 15

Ella’s Song…By Bernice Johnson Reagon Issue 16

A Dream Deferred…By Langston Hughes Issue 17

Who Killed McDuffie? A Definitive Question…By Hakim Al-Jamil Issue 18

Noose…By tyler Howat Issue 19

Racism is Around Me Everywhere…By Francis Duggan Issue 20

Some Just…By Francis Duggan Issue 21

Issue 22 But Now I Will…By Calvin Porter

Issue 23 How Can I Escape the Dreaded Weed (Excerpt)…By Rex Tyler

Issue 24 Erlynn’s Poem…By Erlynn

Issue 25 Impeach Him Now!!! By Sweet_One4Now

Issue 26 Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Issue 27 A Meltdown…By Dr. Nouriel Roubini

I See Hope…By John Gary Williams Issue 28

Can You Spare A Dime? By Jesse Garcia Issue 29

The House with Nobody in It By Alfred Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918) Issue 30

“Wake Up Everybody” By Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes Issue 31

The Blood by Zhana Issue 32

June By Shi Tao Issue 33

The Congo (I. Their Basic Savagery) By Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) Issue 34

Elixir of Life Artist Unknown Issue 35

Issue 36 Divided World By Sam Kellaway

Issue 38 Heaven Help Us All By Stevie Wonder

Issue 39 God Bless the Child By Billie Holiday

Issue 40 The Hand That Signed the Paper By Dylan Thomas

Issue 41 The Haunted Oak By Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

Issue 42 Victim Blaming By SarahNSH

Issue 43 Indig-nation By Shubhen Bhandare

Issue 44 The Presidency: Do We Need It? (Excerpts) By Paul Barrow

Issue 45 Quotes by James Baldwin

Issue 46 Ain’t No Stopping Us Now By McFadden & Whitehead

Issue 49 Roses and Revolutions By Dudley Randall

Issue 50 Christmas: The Gifts By Kenneth W. McCardell

Issue 51 from “Harlem Gallery” By Melvin B. Tolson

Issue 52 Hooverville By The Christians

Volume 10 ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª 2007

ªIssue 1 The Urge to Surge"…By Mumia Abu-Jamal ª

ªIssue 2 Greatest Love of All…By Michael Masser and Linda Creed ª

ªIssue 3 All Shook Up…By Otis Blackwell ª

ªIssue 4 Deception…By John Burl Smith ª

ªIssue 7 Ball of Confusion…By The Temptationsª

ªIssue 8 Is it For Freedom?...By Sara Thomsenª

ªIssue 12 Israel Slaughters Palestine…By Genevieve Cora Fraser (2004) ª

ª Issue 13 Democracy…By Langston Hughes ª

ª Issue 14 Making Freedom a Verb…By Rodney Coates ª

ªIssue 15 For the Confederate Dead…By Kevin Youngª

ªIssue 16 The Butterfly…By John Burl Smithª

ªIssue 18 Blaming Poverty on the Poor…By Josephine Dixon-Banksª

ªIssue 19 Harriet Beecher Stowe…By Paul Laurence Dunbarª

ªIssue 20 I Love My People!...By Yohannes Sharriffª

ª Issue 21 Copper John By Yohannes Sharriff ª

ª Issue 28 Housing Bubble …By Anonymous ª

ª Issue 30 Monster…By Kay, Edmonton, Nicholas & Byrom ª

ª Issue 31 Baroque Down Blankety-Blank…By B. Nice ª

ª Issue 33 Farming Mushroom Clouds…By B. Nice ª

ª Issue 34 Deception…By John Burl Smith ª

ª Issue 35 Dogs of War ª

ª Issue 36 Songs for the People…By Frances E.W. Harper ª

ª Issue 37 Blowin’ in the Wind…By Bob Dylan ª

ªIssue 38 Israel’s Wall of Silence…By Genevieve Cora Fraserª

ªIssue 39 Beautiful Black Child (An Ode to the Jena 6)….By Yohannesª

ªIssue 40 Someday We’ll All Be Free…By Donny Hathawayª

ªIssue 41 Only a Pawn in Their Game…By Bob Dylanª

ªIssue 44 Lynching…By Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer ª

ªIssue 46 Black Man’s Burden…By Kerri-Ann Smithª

ªIssue 49 Confession…By Yohannes Sharriffª

ªIssue 50 Difficult Children…By Gene Bedleyª

ªIssue 52 Cancer Cells…By Harold Pinterª

Volume 9 ª ª ª ª ª ªªªªª ª ª ª ª 2006

Living For The City …By Stevie Wonder Issue (902)

Thru These Eyes…By Yohannes Sharriff Issue (903)

My Poem (1968)…By Nikki Giovanni Issue (904)

Walls…By Mumia Abu-Jamal Issue (905)

Found in the Free Library…By Eleanor Wilner Issue (906)

Armageddon!!...By Yohannes Sharriff Issue (907)

Changing of the Guard…By Yohannes Sharriff Issue (908)

I Call to My Brothers!!!...By Yohannes Sharriff Issue (909)

Trail Of Tears…By sandygram Issue (911)

Architects of Time…By Sandra S. Corona Issue (915)

Alone At the Plate Issue (916)

Snow (1936)…By Mao Tse-Tung Issue (917)

Seen…By Lisa Detweiler Issue (918)

The Baddest Black Woman I Know (My Mama)…By Yohannes Sharriff Issue (919)

African Phoenix…By Bashir Goth Issue (920)

Health Warning: Capitalism Kills You (Excerpts)…By Jo Swift Issue (921)

Beyond the Pale…By John Maxwell Issue (923)

Hypocrisy…By Neil Harding McAlister Issue (925)

Palestine Has No Partner in Peace…By Genevieve Cora Fraser Issue (926)

Rivers of Blood Flow thru the Corporate-Spine Spin…By Diana Gwinn Issue (929)

Distracted, damn right I am! (Excerpts)…By Georgia Stillwell Issue (931)

Tetraktys VII…By Jan Haag Issue (932)

Pre-Requiem…By John M Swails Issue (933)

Childhood…By Margaret Abigail Walker Issue (934)

My Hero…By Tim Meister Issue (935)

Heroes…By C A Webb Issue (936)

The Restless Consumer…By Neil Young Issue (937)

Ballad of Birmingham …By Dudley Randall (1914-2000) Issue (938)

Requiem for America: Wake Up American World Citizens!...By Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) Issue (939)

Poetic Soldier…By John M. Swails Issue (940)

Dreams…By Yohannes Sharriff Issue (941)

The Quadroon Girl…Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Issue (942)

Don't Let Our Hair Divide Us…By Carolyn Hopkins Issue (943)

The Election…By Jessica Issue (944)

Africa..By Maya Angelou Issue (945)

The Passage…By Christopher Okigbo Issue (946)

Wrong on all Counts…By Former US Rep. Paul Findley Issue (947)

I Wish Thanksgiving Were For All of Us…By Jeralyn Merritt Issue (948)

Tin Star Diplomacy…By Ellen Griffith Issue (949)

On An Underground Railroad…By Kinny Landrum Issue (950)

Volume 8 ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª 2005

ªPhenomenal Woman…By Maya Angelou Issue (802)

Just a Racket…Smedley Darlington Butler (1881-1940) Issue (804)

An Artist’s Plea…By Yohannes Sharriff Smith Issue (805)

Magicians…By John M. Swails Issue (806)

ªGood Daze: da Cipher…By Yohannes Sharriff Smith Issue (808)

Negro Hero…By Gwendolyn Brooks Issue (810)

Where There’s Smoke…By Yohannes Sharriff Issue (812)

The Slave's Complaint…By George Moses Horton Issue (813)

Nothing But Stones…By Ella Wheeler Wilcox Issue (815)

My People…By The Last Poets Issue (816)

Taxation Poem …Author Unknown Issue (817)

Alarmed…By Yohannes Sharriff Issue (818)

Builder…By Unknown Issue (819)

Reality…By Margaret Issue (820)

ªThe Debt Unpayable…By Francis William Bourdillon (1852-1921) Issue (821)

The Times They Are A 'Changin'…By Bob Dylan Issue (823)

On "Lynching Song"…By Onwucheka Jemie Issue (824)

Ghost Warriors…By Donald Hook Issue (825)

On Rongelap Radiation…By Chiyoko Tamayose Issue (826)

"Love Doctor" (excerpts)…By Tiy-E Muhammad Issue (827)

People of Soul …By Oscar Brown, Jr. Issue (828)

Atomic Skies Falling…By Carah Ong Issue (830)

ªO’ Freedom! Issue (831)

Feeling Disorganized…By Dave Collins Issue (839)

Prejudice…By Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer (1907) Issue (840)

Injustice of the Courts…By Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer (1907) Issue (841)

The Industry of Life…By Anonymous Issue (842)

Why Negroes Don't Unite…By Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer (1907) Issue (843)

…Pipe and Can…By Anonymous (17th Century) Issue (844)

The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock…By Gwendolyn Brooks Issue (845)

Rapture…By Lorna Crozier Issue (848)

Battle Song…By Z'etoile Imma Issue (849)

ªHome of the Slave (Excerpt)…By Daniel Glover Issue (850)

The Spying Spider…By Don Tidwell Issue (851)

Black History Poem…By Celly Torrez Issue (852)

Volume 7 ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª 2004

Issue 4 Black Rage…By Crystal Cartier ª

Issue 7 Superstar (Slap the S**t out of You)…By Yohannes Sharriff ª

ªHam and Cheese: Linear Secularism…By Yohannes Sharriff Issue 22

Still I Rise…By Maya Angelou Issue 28

Smiling Faces Sometimes (song)…Written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong Issue 29

ª Lemonade…By Yohannes Sharriff Smith Issue 30

The Lawyers' Ways…By Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) Issue 31

The White Man's Burden…By J. Rudyard Kipling Issue 34

ª Orange Agent…By Nguyen Thi Lan Issue 35

New National Anthem…By Herb O. Buckland Issue 36

ªAmerica…By Maya Angelou Issue 37

Song for the Old Ones…By Maya Angelou Issue 38

Full-Figured Potential: A Fat Girl's Blues… By Georgia Me Issue 39

Newspaper…By Anu Jagannath Issue (742)

No Struggle, No Progress…By Frederick Douglass (1857) Issue (743)

Empire of Oil -- Forever?...By Mumia Abu-Jamal Issue (744)

Come, All Ye Chosen Saints of God (Part I)…By Joseph Hart (1712-1768) Issue (745)

I Saw a Chapel…William Blake (1757-1827) Issue (746)

The Perpetual War Machine…By S.M. GRAY Issue (747)

Where Air of Freedom Is…By Walter Everett Hawkins Issue (748)

A Peck of Gold…By Robert Frost Issue (751)

Volume 6 ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª 2003

Issue 1 "I am the Speaker" ª

Issue 6 Valentine's in the Middle of Black History ª

Issue 50 Teach Them How to Fly…By Crystal Cartier ª

Issue 51 Innocence…By Shabaka Tecumseh ª

Issue 52 To Alisha: A Budding Word Artist…By Yohannes Sharriff ª

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