Classmates
Voyeur
California poet Jodi Hottel discovered her changing identity after her Japanese American family was shipped to an internment camp during World War II.
Langston Hughes Was a Lifelong Socialist
Jacobin
In the 30s and 40s, Langston Hughes wrote poetic tributes to the working class and socialist leaders worldwide. Some critics allege he abandoned his principles later in life, but they ignore the role of McCarthyist oppression and Hughes’s resistance.
poetry
The 84th Anniversary of the Spanish Civil War
Bitter Oleander
Simon Baena’s homage to the Spanish Republic reflects the continuing grief of the lost anti-fascist cause of the 1930s.
poetry
Withdrawal Symptoms
Rattle
“I’ve been appalled but not surprised,” writes poet Dave Bonta, criticizing “the slanted coverage of the U.S. and NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan” by media war hawks.
poetry
The Rise and Fall of the United States of America
Laurel Review
Carolina poet Dan Albergotti places “American Exceptionalism” in a disturbing historical context.
poetry
Emma Goldman’s Ice Cream Parlor
Radical Teacher
Poet-Teacher Susan Gubernat brings the life—and passion --of Emma Goldman into the 21st Century.
books
“Her Living Voice”: On “The Essential Muriel Rukeyser”
Los Angeles Review of Books
This new selection should help broaden reader interest in the work of this socially conscious poet.
poetry
Longing for the Garden
The experience of migration—whether refugee or voluntary—leaves the scar of uprootedness, as the Persian/American poet Esther Kamkar explains.
Heine’s Heartmobile
New York Review of Books
The liveliness and invention of Heinrich Heine’s writing changed 19th century German literature for the better. Poet, writer, literary critic, satirist and ironist, but banned in his homeland and expatriated to Paris, he was well appreciated by Marx
poetry
Professor Bullhead & Critical Race Theory
newversenews.com
The denial of racism in education is hardly new, as poet Peter Neil Carroll presents the story of a Native American reformer.
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