Saturday, February 10, 2024




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Animal Dignity, a book edited by Melanie Challenger, reviewed by Gregory F. Tague

Poetry by Vaneshran Arumugam

Letters to My Sheep by Teya Brooks Pribac - Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Troutman

New Book by Jan Deckers - Health Care Ethics and Law

Defending Animals by Kendra Coulter - Reviewed by Gregory F. Tague

Garrett Mostowski, Lunations: Poems - Reviewed by Andrew Taylor Troutman

Ross Gay, The Book of (More) Delights - Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Troutman

Anne Whitehouse poetry book Steady - Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Troutman

Oppressive Liberation: Sexism in Animal Activism - book review by Gregory F. Tague

"Zelensky's Passion" - Poem by Nina Tassi (video)

Lichens by Vincent Zonca - book review by Gregory F. Tague

Justice for Animals by Martha C. Nussbaum - book review by Gregory F. Tague

Space Races by Anne Whitehouse

A Better Ape by Victor Kumar and Richmond Campbell - book review by Gregory F. Tague

Tribute to Dr. Kathryn Coe

An Evolutionary Case for Veganism

Is there moral justification to eat meat? Read Gregory F. Tague's answer to that question in the Ecological Citizen

Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory by Alice Crary and Lori Gruen

Carlo Alvaro, a Philosopher of Virtue Ethics, Comments on Cultured Meat

The Creative Lives of Animals by Carol Gigliotti - book review by Gregory F. Tague

Metamorphoses by Emanuele Coccia - book review by Gregory F. Tague

Growing Up In The Ice Age by April Nowell - book review by Gregory F. Tague

A paper, by Gregory F. Tague and Sintia Molina, on the cultural ecology of food in the journal Environmental Sciences Proceedings

Charles Darwin - a biography by J. David Archibald - Reviewed by Gregory F. Tague

Art and Adaptability: Consciousness and Cognitive Culture by Gregory F. Tague

On the Animal Trail - Review by Gregory F. Tague

Arrest Fauci? - Opinion Essay by Ryan Ritchie

Ghosts of America - Novel by Caroline Hagood - Reviewed by Mitch Levenberg

Wattana: An Orangutan in Paris by Chris Herzfeld - Review by Gregory F. Tague

An Ape Ethic - Extended Abstract Essay - in The Montreal Review

Bird Cottage by Eva Meijer - Review by Gregory F. Tague

Speak the Word - Music and Lyrics by Vaneshran Arumugam

Patience is a Virtue - Waiting Poems by Isabel Rimanoczy

Skaidrite Stelzer, Digging a Moose from the Snow – Book Review

Animals' Best Friends - compassionate action - Book Review by Gregory F. Tague
A Story of Us - Cultural Evolution - Book Review by Gregory F. Tague
Tribute to Kriben Pillay by Vaneshran Arumugam
Review of Damian Kim's book Cherish the Invisible Mind
"Primates are not...." essay by Gregory F. Tague in Trace: Journal of Human-Animal Studies
Greg Trupiano - Four Remembrances
Profile of Author and Vegan Natalie Khazaal on Literary Veganism
Profile of Philosopher Elisa Aaltola on Literary Veganism
Evan Nicholls on Poetry by Anne Whitehouse
Debra Rosenman's book, The Chimpanzee Chronicles - Essay by Gregory F. Tague
David Wood's book, Thinking Plant Animal Human - Essay by Gregory F. Tague
 An Ape Ethic and the Question of Personhood
Vaneshran Arumugam on South Africa - Video
Announcing a New Venture - Literary Veganism
"Disintegration" by S.E. Soldwedel - A Review by Carlo Alvaro
Songs of Story Men - Vaneshran Arumugam and Emmanuel Castis
Tribute to Toni Morrison - by Divya Bhatnagar
Banning Meat Consumption? - Book Review by Carlo Alvaro
Story of Jimmy (video)
Story of an Ethical Vegan - Carlo Alvaro
"South Africa" - poem by Vaneshran Arumugam
Spirit Ascending - Poet Nina Carey Tassi
Long Day's Journey Into Night - Review by Timothy V. Dugan
Kevin Hughes on Free Verse
Poems of Witness by James K. Zimmerman
Creation - a poem by Gabriel Guerra
Meteor Shower by Anne Whitehouse - a Review
Tribute to Omer Hadžiselimović by MiloradPejić
Protest Series - David H. Rommereim
Protest Series - Thom Brucie
Protest Series - Sharon Scholl
Protest Series - 2 more from J.K. Zimmerman
Protest Series - Lauren Coe
Protest Series - Janyce Stefan-Cole
Protest Series - J.K. Zimmerman
Some Reading
This Human Trait: Thom Brucie's Story
Thom Brucie's Poems from Wood
Frank Russo and Human History
Poems of James K. Zimmerman
Refugees and Runes of War
Four Poems by Adin Ljuca
Andrea Vojtko: Short Story Writer
Evolution and Art - New Book
Review of Alexandra Glynn's Psalm Sonnets
Philosophical Novelist, Ed Gibney
Review of Alicia Ostriker by Nina Tassi
Standing Next to a Corpse
Review of Caroline Hagood by Nina Tassi
Review of Kevin Brown by Nina Tassi
Letter From a Poet
Tongariro by Milorad Pejić
O'Neill's Strange Interlude - Timothy Dugan
Disturbed Sleep, M. Kaat Toy
Poet James Tolan
More Poems by Milorad Pejić 
Karl Geary, Author and Actor
Profile of Gary Guinn
Michigan - Jeff Vande Zande





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Poetry by Vaneshran Arumugam

“Freedom...yet incomplete”
             By Vaneshran Arumugam


I’m just a tiny piece of the planet
that prays with my eyes closed
while i feel every flutter in the darkness where my prayer is uttered
I am alo preyed upon so that 
the whole of my peace is disturbed, my ease is curbed
when you're convinced convincing me that we are two
It is not so true
Every matter only appears outside these eyes
while the real light is inside burning bright
catching glimpses of the primordial dance, the fight
or flight
If I can compose myself again i just might
grow from my mind some runners to root in the dimension that follows...
the what is next.
Maybe then that final peace will come

But magic spells are incanted syllable by syllable
Great stories stitched together piece by piece
Harmonies symphonised beat by beat
until colours bleed from the dark and a kaleidoscope emerges
like a scent on the breeze
opposite to nowhere
and far from disease

Copyright©2024 by Vaneshran Arumugam. All Rights Reserved.

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