New and On View: Mudlark Flash No. 84 (2014)
The Harvest from a Field on Fire
Five Poems by Rachel Kubie
These poems stem from the Moral Monday protests in North Carolina this past
summer. Rachel Kubie is one of more than 940 arrestees who engaged in civil
disobedience at the legislative building in Raleigh. *
How to get Arrested
a preacher calls from the fields behind the senate
self-portrait with HB 589
In the Wild
how to keep a country
Rachel Kubie is a public reference librarian in Charlotte, NC. She attended the
Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins "and had the good luck to study under Allen
Grossman there." She also has the MLS from Catholic University in DC. Her work
has appeared in Drunken Boat, Oyster Boy Review, Rattapallax, Rhino, Sou'wester,
and Potomac Review among other magazines, and in the anthologies Imperial
Messages: 100 Modern Parables (2nd ed.) and Final Harvest: Jewish Writing from
St. Louis.
The five poems in The Harvest from a Field on Fire took shape as drafts in
the Tupelo Press online 30/30 project (during which poets attempt to post 30
drafts in 30 days).
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* House Bill 589, with massive changes to voting laws, was rushed through the
North Carolina legislature with almost no public notice in the late summer of
2013. It was introduced on the heels of the Shelby County v. Holder Supreme
Court case which struck down part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and it
enacts voting practices that the VRA would not have allowed, especially in
Southern states and counties where voter repression and intimidation had long
been common practice from the reconstruction to the civil rights movement.
Among many changes, the new law allows vigilante poll watchers, and the
direct challenging of voters at the polls, requires strict forms of
identification beyond a voter registration card, shortens early voting, halts
programs to help older teens register for the first time, and places other
restrictions on qualifications and access to voting (including not allowing
polls to remain open for long lines during elections).
The new law is being challenged by a number of groups, including the NAACP,
the League of Women Voters, and now the US Department of Justice. It introduces
the most severe restrictions on voting in the country.
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