poetry
POETRY: A mother stamps her feet
October 28, 2019A mother in San Jose sees a child in a cage and stamps her feet.
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POETRY: In this Country
October 24, 2019"There is an enormous untapped power in the hands of the millions."
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September 1, 1939: In memory of poet W.H. Auden
August 30, 2019Homage to Clio, the title poem of W.H. Auden’s 1960 small book of light verse—the later, shorter poems—is where I found out about the ninth muse, the Muse of History.
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Poetry selections for the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre
August 16, 2019Percy Bysshe Shelley’s lifetime was defined by the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and severe political repression in England and elsewhere in Europe.
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My revolution was born in a Mississippi courtroom
July 29, 2019A poetry submission for the CP100 Series.
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