During the TransitionThe Resistance has begun.On X the Poetry Foundationwill no longer post any new material, opting insteadfor good old Facebookand its child Instagram.I have used salty words about my erstwhile heroes still in 1600 Pennsylvaniaso help them God.I am not hawking Ten Thousand Steps Against the Tyrantany more although I don’t deny the poems. Like Jack Smiththe Special ...
Thank you who read these words, friends, men, women, children, gays, trans, minorities, everybody who shepherded this poet into the wilderness and out again, ensconced and cradled in hands, on laps, in hearts. in the passenger seat while I drove from border townto watering hole, to the city centerto sip cappuccinos, nibble cake and sit back and smile togetherat the ...
RevivalTo vote or not to vote, that is not the question or the dilemma. Mark a ballot for the candidate who wants to keep the ship floating or the other who wants to crash it, both supported by capital, my capital against yours, my ads versus your deep fakes. There are differences still between these two, not only their ...
Para Silvio Silvio Santos (1930-2024)Maravilhosa a mão que Silvio Santos estendida, a maneira como dançava e sorria, nos fazia rir e chorar de alegria, seu generoso apoio a tantos jovens artistas que chegavam na cidade, aos quais ele deu sua primeira chance, de cantar para uma multidão pessoalmente, na televisão. Silvio Santos, que poderia ter se tornado presidente do ...
Basta “Basta”-- Pope Francisco, November 6, 2023Basta. Enough. Stop killingchildren in Gaza and Israel.Cease fire. Let leaders wiseor mad, it does not matter.We have no time forpsychological evaluations.Let these directorsof the tragedy meetin a foreign capitalto make peace. Do notkill innocents anymore.Stop. Too much. Thisis not complicated,not difficultto understandDo not kill newgenerations, their fathers and mothers. Stanch hatred rising ...
We did it!Engineers roar, slap each other'sbacks, go gaga as Chandrayaan-3sends Vikram to land onthe Southern Pole of the Moonopening to the intrepid Pragyanthat will go a-roaming whereno robot has gone before. Thisis a huge step for India, yes,and for the rest of us as we see our kind cross boundariesthat exist only in the mind,drawing planetary sustenance from this ...
A Day of Service (Trump's Booking)He used to be president. He said oncehe could stand in the middle of 5th Avenueand shoot a man and he would walk awayfree. Today he was arraigned for payingoff Stormy Daniels to keep quiet abouttheir past affair while he campaignedto take the oath and lead the countrythrough what turned out to be a ...
The RulersWe are teachers today and kids.We are kids today and teachers.We are thirteen years old stabbingour professor in the playgroundat Thomasia Montoro public schoolin São Paulo. We are twenty eightyears old and female with twoautomatic rifles and a handgunkilling three nine-year-oldsand three sixty-somethingsat the Covenant schoolin Nashville. What distinguishesa public from private, statefrom religious school? Nothing.Nothing. Nothing. In ...
Cada seis horasA verdade que você sinalaneste Dia Intenacionalda Mulher não tem resposta.O fato que morre cadaseis horas uma mulhera mão do seu namoradono Brasil, um paísque celebra tais misturasé mais que alarmantee se eu começoa inquirir nos diversespaíses do mundoincluindo Estados Unidos(onde o número diário e tres, ainda alarmante)e alguns outros ondeassassinar a mulherpor respeitar o honorda família ...
We Are All Chileans TodayThe poet did not pass only from a broken heart, not because he could not eat as his prostate cancer spread, not after he read of Salvador Allende bombed in the Moneda, not walking out alive. The poet died because of clostridium botulinum injected into his stomach while he slept in Santa Maria clinic, Santiago, ...
Perú, By A ThreadPerspective is everything.Peruvian press ownedby white elites who dismiss the chola hordes,the new presidentaccompanied by ministersfrom Fujimori’s dictatorship,daughter Keiko just releasedfrom her chargesheet.The cards are deckedin dear old Peru. So whenyou see a peasant throwingstones and hear the crackof bullets fired by policein return, when the stone-thrower has no jobor money or prospectswhile copper miningconglomerates tradeon ...
What's Next?We are not going to give the fellows a pass with expressions of condolence, minutes of silence, then off they go to the NRA Convention in Houston while leaving instructions to block the latest attempt to forgive student loans, increase funds for Covid tests, fund food stamps, allow a woman the right to choose, and ban littering in ...
This TimeHorror, foul murder. butchering children, this America always with us, kept in news clips, remembered where I found myself the day the music...and all the accumulated rage about innocents in America, Asia, Europe ,Australia, Africa, will they ever get justice? Why allow killers to arm? Abbott, do you not feel any remorse, responsibility as governor letting murderers roam ...
Middle East EncounterSeeds were roasted on za'atar and grape leaves stuffed with sweetmeats. Falafel balls rolled on the platterand hummus and babaganoush sloshed patiently in bowls as we dipped pita bread and talked of atrocitiesfrom the eternal front, but we spoke with joy as musiciansshook tambours and beat drums, as dancers raised hands and swirled in front of us, and ...
Woman In A FieldI want to paint your sky blue skirt spotted with hundreds of white islands, ocean on land before a primrosed field, grass green, hair a flame, talisman beside my keyboard, gift received. I thank you now, and dream of a world beyond my own eyes, of essences, sky,water, woman, primroses, grass. I say the peace that ...
From Florida, with LoveK.K.M are the initials of the federal judge who just struck down the C.D.C rule requiring face masks on public transport, buses, trains, planes. K.K.M. says the C.D.C exceeded its authority and failed to follow proper procedure in setting the rule, whose target, the pesky Covid 19, is irrelevant in her view. The millon U.S. dead ...
On International Women's DayOn this early Spring day in the Beltway I think of all the women who have woken me up, fed and clothed me, teased and got me out of bed and into walking shoes, who have inspired my writing books, who give me a pacific healing embrace when I start to stiffen, fall into despair; and ...
