Michael (Dekel) Dickel is a poet, digital artist, editor, publisher (Is a Rose Press, with gary lundy), and semi-retired educator.
Wielding the Presidential Pen to Produce Slime—The gang-boss (I hesitate to call him POTUS) of the National RICO Criminal Enterprise (aka the Trump-GOP Gang), has moved to end the crimes against humanity of kidnapping refugee children from their mothers with an Executive Order (EO). It is empty PR.
It’s time to return to the 1960s tactics of the Civil Rights and Anti-War Movements. It’s time to hit the streets! Strike! Moratorium! Protest! Get in the faces of the fascists! Call for National Protests on 30 June 2018! Let’s make it Global! Click here to find a […]
Amanda Palmer and Jasmine Power have combined haunting, almost ghost-like voices singing memories into a powerful anthem for women taking back their own narrative—taking the script (writing) back from the Harvey Weinsteins of the world.
Book review of gary lundy’s poetry collection, “each room echoes absence,” plus six new poems of his.
A HamiltonSeen film by Cody Lanktree of Michael Dickel reading his poem, “But Hear the Dissonance, 1948-2012.”
I have readings in Gainesville (14th) and Tallahassee (16th), Florida, next week, and one in Hamilton, Ontario (23rd), the following week. Find the details on my Event Page! Please come if you are near, and—near or far—spread the word to your friends and family.
Originally posted on Jamie Dedes' THE POET BY DAY Webzine:
“That some of those labelled as enemies have crossed the lines to offer condolences at the mourning tents; that the mourning families spoke to each other as parents and cried on each others’ shoulders; that we cried for…
Three social-political activist poems from James D. Casey IV on Meta/ Phor(e) /Play.
An experimental poem by Michael Dickel on Anti-Narrative— Prologue to Dick Moby experimental Melville Orphan another found only children missing her after search retracing her in that, Rachel cruising—devious. Last up, me— picked and, nearer, near drew sail, a day, a second, on the. Beaks sheathed with sailed […]
Moon Song, Driving it Home and Keeping it There, Vanishing Act | Three Poems by Jennifer Juneau | Meta/ Phor(e) /Play
She enjoyed scavenging—three poems by Meg Harris: Memory, Bird Sanctuary, and Travel.
Originally posted on The BeZine:
This year, the last Saturday of September, the regular day for the Global 100,000 Poets for Change Events around the world, falls on Yom Kippur, considered the Holiest day of the Jewish religion. Observant Jews around the world are fasting, having spent the…
Michael Stone takes us from memory through observation to hope—three poems on Meta/ Phor(e) /Play.
Three poems from Karen Alkalay-Gut: What I need, I am a connoisseur of insomnia, and Avishag Speaks.
Originally posted on Jamie Dedes' THE POET BY DAY Webzine:
We invite you to share your most passionate works expressing kindness and human connection and the ways that together we might heal the degradation and devastation of wars and genocides; the heartbreak of refugees living in limbo; the desolation…
Three poems about Barnsley from Paul Brookes—A Shock of Gold, Buried Treasure, and “Abandoned Workings.”
Two poems by Hungarian poet Kinga Fabó, translated into English by George Szirtes, with the original Hungarian.
Three selected excerpts from Krysia Jopek’s Hourglass Studies, forthcoming from Crisis Chronicles Press.
Nothing Remembers
by Michael Dickel
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The Palm Reading after The Toad's Garden
by Michael Dickel
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War Surrounds Us
by Michael Dickel
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Midwest / Mid-East
by Michael Dickel
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