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Category: Words on the Street

Now available: the first Words on the Street book!

Via Negativa’s street-wise, virtual guest writer has been gracing these pages since 2004.

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Dave Bonta

Words on the Street

holloway overhung with ancient trees n Cornwall

Homeless guy with sign: "St. Francis was among the disappeared"


See “Pope accused of turning his back on family who lost five relatives to brutal regime in Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’“

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Dave Bonta

Words on the Street

holloway overhung with ancient trees n Cornwall

Homeless guy with sign: "Incentivize my growth with targeted subsidies."

Posted on January 1, 2013January 1, 2013 by Dave Bonta

Words on the Street

holloway overhung with ancient trees n Cornwall

Homeless guy with sign: 2013 resolutions.

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Dave Bonta

Words on the Street

holloway overhung with ancient trees n Cornwall

Homeless guy with sign: "The End is Near [crossed out] severely overrated."

Posted on December 19, 2012December 19, 2012 by Dave Bonta

Words on the Street

holloway overhung with ancient trees n Cornwall

Homeless guy with sign: "One more shopping day until the apocalypse."

Posted on December 10, 2012December 10, 2012 by Dave Bonta

Words on the Street

holloway overhung with ancient trees n Cornwall

Homeless guy with sign: "For Sale: My Fiscal Cliff Notes."

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Dave Bonta

Words on the Street

holloway overhung with ancient trees n Cornwall

Homeless guy with sign: "Non-member observer."


A little slow on the draw.

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Dave Bonta

Words on the Street

holloway overhung with ancient trees n Cornwall

Homeless guy with sign for Thanksgiving: Platitudes about gratitude are hard to stomach while you wage war on the poor.

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Dave Bonta

Words on the Street

holloway overhung with ancient trees n Cornwall

Homeless man with sign: No real name given - please help

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Dave Bonta

Words on the Street

holloway overhung with ancient trees n Cornwall

Homeless guy with sign: Minimizing my carbon footprint - please help

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See “Russell Simmons to NYC Homeless: ‘[You’re] F*cked’“

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About

Via Negativa is a unique experiment in daily, poetic conversation with the living and the dead. Dave Bonta founded the site in 2003 and Luisa A. Igloria joined in 2010. Guest authors contribute as well. Dave writes daily erasure poems to discover the poetry hidden in the Diary of Samuel Pepys. Luisa has been writing and posting a poem a day since November 2010, often in response to Dave’s entries at The Morning Porch. Collections of poems first published at Via Negativa include Luisa’s The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis and Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser, and Dave’s Ice Mountain and Breakdown: Banjo Poems. Read more…

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