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Blood Wedding: On the Execution of Frederico Lorca

The great Spanish poet, Frederico Lorca, was executed by a Nationalist militia firing squad during the early morning hours of 19 August 1936, at the very beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Lorca was...

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About the Occupy Wall Street Library…

Occupy Wall Street is about protest, sure, but the people there are also really interested in modeling a new democratic society. And apparently one of the first orders of business for that society has...

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99 Poems for the 99 Percent: Check It Out

Poet and professor Dean Rader has begun curating a very interesting forum in the public uses of poetry, 99 Poems for the 99 percent, which will run 99 poems “that address the social, political,...

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Occupy Wall Street Library Raided, Demolished

The New York Police Department, under the direction of Michael Bloomberg, razed the New York Occupy Wall Street site last night. Part of their work was to demolish the OWS Library and to throw away...

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Status Update on Seized Occupy Wall Street Library

Yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg’s office tweeted that materials seized from the Occupy Wall Street Library were safely in storage at a sanitation facility ready to be picked up. Today, intrepid OWS...

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Bob Hass on Being Beaten by Police

Former Poet Laureate of the United States, Bob Hass, writes with his usual understated grace about his beating at the hands of riot police at an Occupy Cal demonstration in Berkeley, California last...

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Occupy Wall Street Library Goes Mobile

Excellent article by William Scott in The Nation updating us all on the efforts made to keep the Occupy Wall Street People’s Library going despite two police raids. Click here for the article. “We’re...

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Remembering Adrienne Rich

“We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break...

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On Gertrude Stein’s Politics

Excellent article in the New York Review of Books by Michael Kimmelman on Gertrude Stein and her brothers, Leo and Michael. Kimmelman explores, among other topics,  Stein’s puzzling support of...

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Brenda Hillman on Poetry and (Radical) Politics

Prize-winning poet Brenda Hillman has been deeply engaged with war resistance, Code Pink, and the Occupy movements for many years. In this interview she discusses poetry and politics with terrific...

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