politics

The Poltroon

Poltroon - the very word is like a ... what? a.) A North American mammal of the raccoon family known…

7 years ago

Aubade

An aubade is a poem or piece of music appropriate to the dawn or early morning. By the 1930's it was…

7 years ago

The hand that signed the paper

In light of decision-making by executive order and the White House signing ceremonies that seem to exude smug gloating -…

8 years ago

Power

Power by Audre Lorde The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children.…

8 years ago

On the Steps of the Jefferson Memorial

The simplest poems can be amongst the most profound. On the Steps of the Jefferson Memorial We invent our gods…

8 years ago

Bent to the Earth

Here is a scene of violence and inhumanity that feels torn from the front page of the newspaper or a…

8 years ago

About Those Daffodils

So there I was, wandering about, Strolling the gardens, minding my own business The way one does on an April…

8 years ago

A Ballad on the Taxes

We pay through the nose for subjecting of foes. Abroad we're defeated, at home, we 're cheated. The ides of…

8 years ago

Epitaph on a Tyrant

Epitaph on a Tyrant Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy…

8 years ago

What Kinds of Times are These

What Kinds of Times are These by Adrienne Rich There’s a place between two stands of trees where the grass…

8 years ago

Art and Treason: War Crimes and Responsibility

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.…

8 years ago

Before Disaster

"Fool and scoundrel guide the State." That's true enough. In the early 1930's when this was written speeding traffic on…

8 years ago

Stalin’s Heirs

Stalin’s Heirs by Yevgeny Yevtushenko Mute was the marble. Mutely glimmered the glass. Mute stood the sentries, bronzed by the…

8 years ago

Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)

Muriel Rukeyser wrote this in 1968. Read it and tell me it doesn't feel like she is writing for this…

8 years ago

Art and Our Times

How will artists and writers portray this Trumpian time of disillusion, delusion and deception in which we now live? All…

8 years ago