Popularity is fickle, sucking your cock one day, biting it off the next. Keith Olbermann’s not as popular, ratings or opinion-wise, as he once was. In this political climate he is like a pesky fly to his network. A fly with poor ratings. This was a perfect time to for …
Slovenian Poets
I knew a Slovenian poet in college, or so he said. I never disputed his claim on poetry or Slovenia, though there was more than reasonable doubt behind either declaration. My first college roommate, with her vulgar bedroom habits and less than inspired imagination, could have easily challenged him in …
Let America be America Again
As the last day of poetry month arrived I was reading all the disturbing Arizona immigration garbage when I was momentarily distracted by something that, even in my relatively short life, I would never have imagined I’d be reading. An article about Hugo Chavez exhorting Fidel Castro and Evo Morales …
The Spoken Word
In 2007, wow three years ago, I wrote two poems for national poetry month and posted them in a blog post titled National Poetry Month — Write a Poem, Read a Poem. Here is the favorite. The Spoken Word the written word is many things it makes me mad invokes feeling to …
