“This did not end up being a great photo op for ICE. If they were planning on doing something on Canal Street, they did not get that opportunity.”
Several Arrested as Protesters Block Federal Agents in Manhattan Garage www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

MPS Presents Jiwon Choi, Moira Egan & Jordan E. Franklin

DATE: Nov 16, 2025
TIME: 3-5 PM
PLACE: www.facebook.com/SuiteBarNYC

Join us for a great reading by three exceptional poets--Jiwon Choi, Moira Egan, and Jordan E. Franklin. Introduced by Linda Stern. Open mic. @moiraegan.bsky.social

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Brilliant Times investigation that shows of AI energy robbery. But there's hope: Growing global anti-AI activism is blocking some projects. Takin' it to the streets.
From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

I'm attending Indivisible's event, “NYC SAT 10/11 @3-5: Fall Back to Activism w/ Target Majority NYC - 1 Million Rising & More” - sign up www.mobilize.us/togetherlong...

"He has ridiculously questioned whether the polio vaccine has killed more people than polio itself did even though scientists have found that the vaccine has saved 1.5 million lives and prevented around 20 million people from becoming paralyzed since 1988." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

In the Matter of Lisa Cook
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A Poem for Memorial Day
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"Poetry," Grossman said, "is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing. The making of poems is a practice – a work human beings can do – in which civilization has invested some part of its love of itself and the world.
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I'm delighted to share with you my poem, "The Invitation of Pastel," published yesterday in The Ekphrastic Review. The poem was inspired by "Raton," one of the many delightful collages by Meredith Britt.
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My favorite poet at the youthful age of 73.