poetry
Poem: “Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie at Riverfest, St. Paul, Minnesota”
February 5, 2014From "The Death of Communism" (Partisan Press) and reprinted with permission.
Read more“Preoccupied”: A poem
January 17, 2014"That's why we been preoccupied. Democracy filleted is democracy denied."
Read moreAmiri Baraka: 1934 – 2014
January 16, 2014"He did for the English syntax what Monk did with the chord. He was an original."
Read more“Poetry that Gives Birth to Revolution”
January 15, 2014"We need powerful empowering poetry..."
Read moreAmiri Baraka, preeminent poet and activist, dies at age 79
January 10, 2014Amiri Baraka, one of the country's preeminent African American poets, playwrights and activists died Thursday at Newark's Beth Israel Hospital after a brief illness.
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