David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Against Hatred
“A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness…” – George Orwell Well, that Two Minutes Hate is over. As I prepare for Donald J. Trump’s administration, I don’t imagine there are many of us ready to...
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Who Run the World?
On Saturday, January 21, over a half a million women (and men—but let’s be clear that it was women who planned and executed this) came together in Washington, DC, and in sister demonstrations across...
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SquareRoot of Love: Valentine’s Day in Paris – A WinePoetryFilm Project
In these critical times of political nervousness, individual and group terrorism, and state-sanctioned xenophobia, there is an unsettling emerging realization that humanity’s capacity to be mean,...
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #21: Not Yesterday’s Demonstrations
1972: War was waging in Vietnam and kids were coming home in boxes. Hippes and yippies went clean for Gene McCarthy, but George McGovern won the democratic nomination. Tricky Dick Nixon was the one for...
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Falling into Fear
My wife left me grousing on the couch. She had to get up early but told me before she went to bed, “Come get me if something happens.” We had gone to the polls early that morning, before ours even...
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Savage Mind, Pt. 2
I saw the violence in the eyes of my uncles when they took off their shirts in preparation for a fight. At picnics the shirts came off. And when working in the front yard. And in the parking lots...
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