In response to attempted takeovers such as Elon Musk’s, poet Ilya Kaminsky urges us to wake up and resist. Anne Lamott suggests some of the forms this can take.
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Responding to the Musk-Trump Coup
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Prayer Is Waiting with Desire
Richard Bauckman’s poem about Simeon defines prayer as “waiting with desire.”
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Wait and See (Semeon and Anna)", Awaiting the messiah, Richard Bauckman, Simeon Comments closed
Fighting the Erasure of History
Black history month is more essential these days than it has been for a while given Trump’s desire to erase it. Black writers are important in keeping it alive.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "i am accused of tending to the past", "Life Every Voice and Sing", 1984, Black History Month, DEI, Donald Trump, George Orwell, James Weldon Johnson, Lucille Clifton, racism Comments closed
Blake vs. GOP’s Strict Father Morality
The “strict father morality” that, according to Lakoff, governs today’s GOP reminds one of William Blake’s Nobodaddy.
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Auden on Living in an Age of Anxiety
In “Age of Anxiety,” Auden explains why it’s so hard to pierce fascism’s bubble.
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Trump Has Let Slip the Lapdogs of War
In pardoning the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, Trump has cried “havoc” and let slip the dogs of war (to quote from “Julius Caesar”).
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George Eliot Applied to Climate Change
A Wall Street Journal letter uses “Silas Marner” to blame the California wildfires on state agencies–thereby missing a chance to use it against the real culprit.
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Jesus, Defender of the Oppressed
Washington bishop Budde pleaded with Trump to be merciful, following in the tradition of Jesus and Nicagaruan poet Ernesto Cardenal.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Give Ear to My Words", Donald Trump, Ernesto Cardenal, Mariann Budde, Trump inauguration Comments closed
Le Guin: Imagining Trump Alternatives
In wrestling how to counter Trumpism, Le Guin counsels us to expand what we see as possible.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Dispossessed, Donald Trump, One Who Walk Away from Omelas, Ursula K. Le Guin, Utopian thinking Comments closed