Tom Perriello for Virginia Governor
Just returned from a fundraiser for Tom Perriello. Great economic message and a forward-thinking climate and energy message. He gets what’s going on in America. He gets the opioid crisis. […]
Reading Langston Hughes to Children
I got his Poetry for Young People edition of Langston Hughes’ poetry and it really sings. I read it to my 4-year-old nephew on Sunday night–nearly the whole book. He […]
Listen, Liberal
I began Thomas Frank’s new book, Listen, Liberal, this weekend. How interesting. It has hooked me in the first few pages. I’ve read much about the Democratic Party–its future, its […]
Book Talk/Signing with James McGrath Morris
Had a lovely time visiting Jamie Morris’ book talk and signing last week at One More Page Books in Arlington, Virginia. He told some great stories that kept the audience […]
New Editorial on Dos Passos by Prof. Aaron Shaheen
Dos Who? When one thinks of the American modernist pantheon—and who doesn’t at least three times daily?—I suspect the usual names rise to the fore: Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. […]
New Poem – People’s Climate March
People’s Climate March: April 2017, Washington, DC We rose early and took to the street, mustering between the Capitol and the White House, free people in solidarity with science; […]
Dos Passos-Savvy
I’ve been working so hard on the Dos Passos legacy lately, I wrote a poem about it: Dos Passos-savvy When I was a boy I knew books; they showed […]
The Wisdom of Jim Gordon
That moment when you see current politics unfolding like Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. The mob/GOP unleashes the Joker/Trump and then recoils at the madness that ensues. Jim Gordon admonishes, […]
Earth Day
I found this quote quite recently in the John Dos Passos oeuvre. Given the salience of environmental matters today and always, I’m delighted to share it. It’s certainly appropriate for […]
“Wilderness,” Carl Sandburg
Another presentation for National Poetry Month–the poem “Wilderness” by Carl Sandburg. Here is the first stanza: THERE is a wolf in me … fangs pointed for tearing gashes … a […]
