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Michael Rothenberg On Monday, 21 November 2022, at around 11 PM EST, Michael Rothenberg left the world. Even though I he had told me that he had cancer and I had recently heard that he went into hospice care, the news of his…
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The BeZine’s Live 100TPC Event(Asynchronous) Poetry, Music, ArtforPeace, Sustainability, Social Justice Poetry. It’s better than war! —Michael RothenbergCo-founder of 100,000 Poets (and friends) for Change Welcome to the 2020 Virtual (Aschronous) Live Event Dedicated to Jamie DedesEditor Emerita It is time once again…
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One Lifetime After Another one day, you’ll see, i’ll come back to hobnob with ravens, to fly with the crows at the moment of apple blossoms and the scent of magnolia ~ look for me winging among the white geese in their practical…
A late elementary school (middle grades and up) exercise for writing a peace poem.
Originally posted on Jamie Dedes' THE POET BY DAY Webzine:
“Pithy and powerful, poetry is a popular art form at protests and rallies. From the civil rights and women’s liberation movements to Black Lives Matter, poetry is commanding enough to gather crowds in a city square and compact…
I want to remember Independence Day for the ideals of the United States, which it has almost never lived up to. As Langston Hughes titled his famous poem: “Let America Be America Again.” Of course, he adds later: “(It never was America to me.)”
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…
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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…
Faruk Buzhala, an Albanian from Kosovo, shares three poems—one written in English, two translated from Albanian.
Today’s online event for 100TPC 2016. Share your writing, art, music, videos, thoughts that relate to the themes of peace, sustainability, and social justice by posting them to our website today… Read the rest and share your work: 100TPC — 2016
Two examples of socially-engaged poets from the first half of the Twentieth Century—W B Yeats and John Cornford.
Two poems by Michael Rothenberg and Mitko Gogov, friends of Michael Dickel from 100TPC.
Three One lies restless in the small hours, the dead of night— three in the morning and worried about medical motorcycles whizzing past a wife on her way home from work this evening— distressed about tear gas and bullets fired into Gazans at the border fence West Bank rioters— hounded […]
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