Poetry
Praise Poem for the Day
Poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher, Elizabeth Alexander was born in 1962 in Harlem, New York, and was raised in Washington, D.C. As a child she studied ballet at St. Mark's Dance School at St. Mark's Episcopal Church and attended Sidwell Friends School.
After They Passed the nNew Nuremburg Laws
after they passed the new nuremburg lawsafter the longyears of accomodationcomes the occupyto say no to everythingto say yes to everythingto tell a majoritywe don't have to live in the old wayand then likethe rat in the corner comesthe occupationto say no to usto say yes to constantlyresurrectingpharaoh andpriest-guardiansof the wealthcreated by all butenjoyed by fewto confirm thatfranklin of fed reservebenjamins famewas right whenway back whenhe warned thata country tradingliberty for securitywould have neitherand some of uslook at these newchildren of thealien and seditionfugitive slavedred scottjim crowcriminal anarchyanticommunistlaws and we knowfrom past timesthese laws are justitching to be broken and the standards andflags once againstrewn at thefeet of a newlytriumphant red army havingcaptured that city havingthe effronteryto be thenew berlin ofa fourth reichabout whicheven now peoplethe world overare placing theirwagers on howlong this monsterwill last.
brightly burning bridges to my past
it's december 1995like a soil covered with teflon, the snow doesn't stick.
Poet-bashing Police
via the NYTimes
They May Want the Lawn
Mark Lipman is a writer, poet, publisher, multi-media artist and activist who began his career as a professional ballet dancer, working with the Kirov Ballet of Saint Petersburg; the Royal Danish Ballet of Copenhagen; the Houston Ballet; and the Ballet Theatre of Boston.
I Just Learned There Are More Than 10 Commandments
I just learned that there are more than 10 commandments.Fourteen or Fifteen -- to be exact.
