poetry
For Valentine’s Day, a love poem
February 12, 2014I wrote this poem while sitting at a bookstore in Rockford, IL. In a creative mood, I heard a woman's voice - the rest is history.
Read morePoem: “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..."
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