Edison Jennings: One of Many Melodious Songs
An ivy educated American male,
bespoke suited but modest and sincere,
once seated and lighted to good effect
and confident of his look and manner
will, when gently prodded, confess
DeWitt Henry: Forces of Nature | A Dream Retold
In my dream, the poor people, on the contrary, many of who are Korean, have lost everything, all of their children. They have had no warning.
Julie Bruck: Two Poems
Whose earth is this?
It’s borrowed, leases are revocable,
minute to minute. Just ask the man
on a rooftop in Gaza
Baron Wormser: Era of Ill Will
It’s easier to be against something than to be for something, particularly since any ideal is bound to have flaws.
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George Yancy: The “Problem” Isn’t Disabled Bodies — It’s the Violent Structure of Our Society
Christine Wieseler argues that medical models of disability “blame the victim” by emphasizing the idea of a conception of embodied normativity. In contrast, social models of disability rethink ways of “helping people to figure out how to live with impairments and chronic illnesses.”
Michael Simms: Brotherly Love
we’re afraid to look deprivation
in the eye, resent admitting our own dumb luck
