Text of Proposed Petition for “A Million Knockers for Peace” Sept. 20 Campaign (received from Code Pink via e-mail) followed by my response PETITION Members of the United States Congress: The five and a half years of war in Iraq has been an exercise of … [Read more...]

Surely it cannot be the case that New York City is experiencing a latter-day “Invasion of the Body-Snatchers”? Surely it would be indefensibly superstitious to attribute our real estate wars and gentrification woes to some extra-terrestrial surge or supernatural … [Read more...]

…a cloth flower pinned to her dress where cool chicks wear their Obama buttons.—Manohla Dargis, film review of "Sex and the City," New York Times 5/30/08 I admit I often feel like a vegan on Turkey Day, a C.O. in World War II, or a loud lesbian guest at … [Read more...]

Memorial Day Weekend: not, for me, the official start of summer but rather the start of “my time.” They don’t own me and now it’s official. Classes have ended, the grades have gone in, I’ve sat through graduation, smiled at the parents and aunts and sisters and … [Read more...]

Do you know about Poetry Daily’s poem-a-day service during April? It’s a great idea, a concierge service for the poetry-minded, delivering one oldie-but-goodie per day to your in-box together with a comment from the rotating poet-"curator." On April 17, the poem … [Read more...]