Poetry is essential in my view, the only art form complex enough to deal with the contradictions of human nature.
Blog Posts on Politics
A Seat at the Table
Regardless of who wins this election, we as a people need to think about the results of the disruption of the past year.
Loving the Bad Boy
How often have we witnessed in our own behavior, in others’ or in literature, what seems to be women’s archetypal empathy for the bad boy?
Gold
At this time of year and on till the end of October, the hills around Santa Fe are heavy with gold hunters, carloads of people who want to look at the gold leaves on the Aspens.
Where Are the Religious Leaders
I may have missed their presence at the demonstrations that have been happening all over the country, most recently in Louisville, Kentucky, but I doubt it.
There Was an Old Woman Tossed up in a Basket
What we are all obliged to do now: to join in sweeping the cobwebs. There is a little time and a little space, provided by the pandemic, for such a sweeping…
Juan de Oñate—Brutal Conquistador
As we are seeing all over the country, protests against police brutality stir protests against other forms of brutality—they are all the same, and recognizing this energizes all of us organizing for radical change.
Where Have All the Flowers Gone Two
Will this younger generation find those flowers? I don’t know, but at least there’s a chance that they may try.
The Limits of Loving
How much of what is wrong with our world today could be fixed by an outpouring of love?
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
What destroyed the hopes so many of us had in the sixties and seventies, when the deep-rooted racism in U.S. culture seemed to have been… well, not uprooted, but at least disturbed?