Monthly Archives: October 2011

When you start with a person getting arrested and possibly being jailed for 8 days and arrive at the Arab Spring in one sentence you have gone too far. Way too far. Those aren’t even…you can’t…just, don’t. Continue reading →

I admit to being one of those following the Occupy Wall Street movement from afar. And it’s, sadly, that there are so many like me that I think will doom the long-term prospects of the movement. It’s still the case … Continue reading →

As part of Litquake’s LitCrawl I’m reading this Saturday night at 7:15 with: Jericho Brown Stacie Cassarino Keith Ekiss Judy Halebsky Jeff Hoffman All wonderful New Issues Press poets. Swing on by…more details here: http://litcrawl.org/sf/events/event/new-issues-poetry-prose/

I love that they don’t have a list of demands. If they were to have demands they would necessarily be too small. How do you wedge the loss of hope in the advancement of a generation into a list of demands? Continue reading →