Commentaries - December 2007

Need more memory, fewer memorials

Ingratitude
Still gets to me, the unfairness
and waste of survival; a nation
with so many memorials but no memory.

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Ike ad 1956

If TV ads for presidential campaigns today were as simple and as silly as those put on by Dwight Eisenhower's people in 1956, I wonder if we would all think the politicians had gone insane, or

PennSound in Scandinavia

Paal Bjelke Andersen this past summer organized a poetry/poetics festival associated with nypoesi.