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GREENFIELD FIRST SUNDAY WORD featured poets: SUNDAY, FEB. 1, 2026, 1:30pm—3:30pm open mic 1:30 features start at 2:30 Where The LAVA Center, 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA https://thelavacenter.org/events/greenfield-first-sunday-word-2025-04-06-2025-05-04-2026-01-04-2026-02-01
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Jan. 22, 2026 and Feb. 1, 2026 I’ll be doing poetry readings. NATURE OF OUR TIMES Readings from the new anthology, The Nature of Our Times, the poetry companion to what was to be the First US Nature Assessment, and is now the United By Nature Initiative—an independent, science-led assessment of nature’s status, benefits, and…
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The Madrid Review‘s new issue’s antiwar/anti-oppression theme features poems for Palestine and Ukraine. Find me there in a few days. Meanwhile, their blog features the issue’s authors, including my own responding to Ukraine and the use of artificial intelligence in militarism. You can sign up here to receive the PDF free when in comes out…
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written on the occasion of Trump dropping the so-called “Mother of All Bombs” on Afghanistan Sure, some of us have never seen war,but we’re still bitter.Our country is still bombing.Our country that says we get to decide. We’ve never wanted to bombcountries we’ve never seenbut hear are full of people. Our country doesn’t want us to…
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I.What of your walk today will you remember?No great blue heron fished in the reeds, through the ice, like that day last winter.You saw no friend you rarely see: none butthose you usually pass and nod to.Who will remember today at all, other thanhow ordinary it was:surely the water rests in the coveand dandelions in…
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Which war are we fighting now?I can’t keep track.Did we win one?And who are we, anyway?I was fighting the war on poverty,you, the war on drugs.I was on drugs. Were you on poverty?War on terror was terrifying–is it over? How will we know?It’s all a black box, a black site.When some man with a map…
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A reminder that all this is not new: Juan Felipe Hererra’s poem about the gulf of Mexican American. Everyday We Get More Illegal
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The contemplative website, The Dewdrop, nominated my poem “Encircling Earth: the Center of Our Gravity” for a Pushcart Prize. https://thedewdrop.org/2024/11/22/pushcart-prize-2025-nominations/
