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Incident at Chapin High
The photo on the Washington Post home page of a teacher standing at the entrance to Chapin High School drew my eye to the headline: Her students…
Sep 19
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Fall Term 2023
Greetings at the beginning of the fall term. Days and evenings grow cooler, sunlight softer. Soon leaves will turn color and fall lazily to the ground…
Sep 8
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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…
Aug 31
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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…
Aug 27
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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…
Aug 23
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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…
Aug 17
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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…
Aug 12
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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…
Aug 6
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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…
Aug 3
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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…
Jul 25
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Home
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Jul 20
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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…
Jul 14
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