Month: October 2012
  • Emma Lazarus and the Politics of Poetry EMMA LAZARUS AND THE POLITICS OF POETRY by James C. Henderson ark Strand and Eavan Boland, in their book, The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, say that the sonnet is a poetic form that features “one strong opening statement of eight lines” and then poses an “emotional or intellectual question” […] No responses 11 min read October 9, 2012
  • Occupy October Occupy October Jack-O’-Lantern. Design and Photo by Davis L. Gonzalez No responses 0 min read October 8, 2012
  • Let’s Talk about Anarchy LET’S TALK ABOUT ANARCHY by Scott Thompson ith three grand jury resisters now in jail for refusing to testify against their friends, even people with no sympathy for the Occupy movement have started to take notice. The police state tactics are finally starting to scare people, or at least a few of them. But even […] No responses 4 min read October 6, 2012
  • Occupy Baby OCCUPY BABY by Athena M. Henderson When I meet people and talk to them about Occupy, many of them have not heard of Occupy. I am shocked by this after all the media coverage Occupy received last fall when Occupy Wall Street took over Zuccotti Park in New York City and other Occupies camped out […] No responses 5 min read October 5, 2012
  • The Zoo THE ZOO by James C. Henderson After a drone strike kills five children in Afghanistan I go to the zoo. I’m not sure why except my granddaughters beg me to go. I haven’t been to the zoo in a while. Admission has gone up, the hours are shorter and the monorail is broken—again. No responses 1 min read October 4, 2012
  • Cultural Succession CULTURAL SUCCESSION by Afterparty Jones from Occupy Vacant Lots of Philadelphia Originally published at Cultural Succession Occupy Vacant Lots Facebook The Movement Grows like the Forests: Cultural Succession ou may have read about – or if yer a seasoned OG (Original Gardener) you may have witnessed – the pattern that emerges over time as forests […] No responses 20 min read October 3, 2012
  • The American Legislative Exchange Council THE AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL A Speech Given at the Minnesota Capitol in March 2012 by Scott Thompson ur country right now is in a state of denial. What we say we want and what we’ve actually built for ourselves are two totally different things, and people manage to live with that contradiction by just […] No responses 6 min read October 1, 2012