The Rise and Fall of the United States of America
Laurel Review
Carolina poet Dan Albergotti places “American Exceptionalism” in a disturbing historical context.
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Emma Goldman’s Ice Cream Parlor
Radical Teacher
Poet-Teacher Susan Gubernat brings the life—and passion --of Emma Goldman into the 21st Century.
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“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.
poetry
Myanmar Military in Pursuit of Poetry
New Verse News
As the generals imprison over 30 poets, California poet Phyllis Klein attacks the killers of poetry in Myanmar, the futility of trying to erase words with bullets.
Friday Nite Videos | April 23, 2021
Portside
Why Is America's Justice System So Unfair? Martín Espada | "The Year I Was Diagnosed with a Sacrilegious Heart". How Human-Robot Sex May Become Real. How an Abstinence Pledge Shamed a Generation. The Great Gap in Vaccinations.
Martín Espada | "The Year I Was Diagnosed with a Sacrilegious Heart"
At 12, in the midst of the Vietnam War, poet-to-be Martin Espada faced consequences for refusing to pledge allegiance.
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Rattle
Responding to the shootings in Atlanta’s Gold Spa, poet Patricia Mona Eng uses online quotes of the shooter against the 911 recordings of the Asian woman calling for help.
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