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August 2023
Gregory Corso and the Belief in Poetry
On my seventy-first birthday I treated myself to some bookstore browsing at Powell’s City of Books. There on an upper shelf in the poetry section The…
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Opening Night of Debate Season
After reflection and some back and forth at the Portable Bohemia editorial desk, I declined to watch Wednesday’s Republican debate live because the…
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The Center Delusion: Reflections and Deflections; and, Debate Season Opens
No Labels and the Center Delusion was intended as a polemic directed at the No Labels project and its appropriation of a fanciful center as raison…
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What Does It Mean? (a poem)
Sometime back in the 1980s, after reading some of my poems, my friend Sue asked, “But what it does it mean?” I was not thinking in terms of a response…
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What Fresh Nonsense Is This?
That zany vaudeville troupe at the Florida Department of Education is at it again. The antics would be a fount of merriment if the stakes were not so…
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Out of Tune with My Time, Out of Time with the Tune
For some time I have thought that a pronounced estrangement from the culture around me might have something to do with the situation on the poetry…
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Tuesday's Indictment: A Positive Development but...
It appears that everyone and his, her, or their brother or other significant relative has weighed in on the coup indictment, so I will keep my comments…
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July 2023
No Labels and the Center Delusion
The myth of a virtuous center made up of a reasonable, moderate majority of the country dissatisfied with extremists who dominate the two major…
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Home
a poem
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No Country for Old Coaches
Senator Coach Tommy Tuberville is engaged in a campaign to undermine the readiness of the American military by holding up promotions to high-level…
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