Inspiration for this poem comes from Elizabeth Bishop, US Poet Laureate 1949: “The armored cars of dreams contrived to let us do many dangerous things” and a painting by 15th century painter Hieronymus Bosch, Tondal’s Last Vision.   In the Armored Cars of Dreams Protection,...

TINIAN, Northern Marianas—The ground is rock hard on the island where American warplanes armed with atomic weapons set off to bomb the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Seventy-five years later, about 70 U.S., Japanese and Australian troops camped side by side in...

“Crushing us whole with its weight, the pressure pounds insanity into our brains” —opening lines from The Breath Of Love by Ali Nuri, 2019. Love Lost on Paper Tossed Valentines on stormy seas tossed inside of me valentines on the ocean, high tides with emotion my love’s labor...

The Northern Marianas Island Girl Scouts’ first cookie sale on the island last Feb.15 was clearly a runaway success, with 1,300 boxes of Girl Scout cookies being sold out. It was a very exciting and historic day for the NMI Girl Scouts since this was the first time in the CNMI...