poetry
‘The Dinner Party Before the Revolution’: Jim Smith’s radical West Coast poetry
December 12, 2019Jim Smith is not a “poet’s poet” writing primarily for his peers in the literary Parnassus. His poems have a rough-and-tumble, earthy, proletarian grittiness that’s not afraid to get its feet dirty.
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POETRY: Guessing the Country
December 9, 2019The country where big money is speech and health care is a prayer.
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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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