Things I'm reading
By ignoring the warnings of Black and immigrant organizers for years, we have failed our children.
Things I'm reading
The kids are alright
Things I'm reading
Stories, and the words that compose them, change the world.
Things I'm reading
What does poetry teach us about the rhymes of history?
Things I'm reading
When we fight we win. Sí, se puede!
Things I'm reading
"Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over and over again — this is too important to sit down and shut up and not do anything."
Things I'm reading
Any random parent doing school protection in Minnesota right now is a better leader than Jeffries and Schumer
Sometimes you just have to tell off the recruiter
Honestly, it's surprising it hasn't happened sooner.
Things I'm reading this week (yes, even more)
Same week, more horrors
Things I'm reading this week
Community building is the source of our strength
Things I'm reading this week
We can be winning, we can be losing, but without hope what do we have?
Public Square - Will Governor Sherrill hear voters?
Will Governor Sherrill learn from voters, or drive her failed re-election?
Things I'm reading this week
Some writing that's inspiring me this week that I think you should see too
Slave Patrols - My latest piece in Public Square
ICE are slave patrols, but the moral failure is worse, 200 years later.
News Poem in Public Square - Lifeguards of morality
Who can save when morality threatens to drown us?
Don't feed the trolls
It's not worth responding directly, but since many trolls share talking points, it's useful to give people facts
Why has starving children broken the dam? And how do we never go back?
Starvation is breaking through in a way that bombing and shooting children didn’t.
New Jersey's Budget is a crisis of representation
I wrote about the New Jersey Budget process, and the larger handling of Bills in Trenton in the New Jersey Monitor.
Progressive Except for Palestine? Fuck off
People say that everything can't be about Gaza, but everything is about everything.
My first news poem - Arc in Public Square
What bends the arc?
