poetry
Poem of the week: Marge Piercy and workers of the world
March 28, 2011Marge Piercy's writing almost always focuses on working class women and wide-ranging social concerns including a lifelong commitment to progressive social change.
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Poem of the week: Emily Dickinson and the Republicans
January 6, 2011The Republican takeover of the House of Representatives can be viewed, almost poignantly, as a death in the neighborhood, and Emily Dickinson provides a commentary.
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Dr. Margaret Burroughs, 1917-2010: What will your legacy be?
November 22, 2010A founder of one of the oldest African American history museums in the country has died.
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Poem of the week: Pat Mora’s “Legal Alien”
October 25, 2010This poem, "Legal Alien," captures an important quality of our evolving and emerging multi-national, multi racial and multi-ethnic culture.
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Communism at the opera
October 4, 2010Communism has taken over the stage at the Los Angeles Opera, and soon will be occupying opera houses in Vienna and Paris!
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