Why is the body politic

Donald Levering wrote an interesting poem by the above title. The unique poem begins:
wearing the gloves of abductors,
doesn’t it love kisses on fingertips?
Why hooded from your lovely eyes?
Why digging secret graves in the woods
that scintillate with butterflies?
The poem ends with these lines:
The mothers continue
their silent procession.
The faces and names that they carry
refuse to be erased.
In [...]

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Political Poetry

I want to make two observations:
1. People who enjoy reading poetry, writing poetry, or thinking about poetry should check out the on-line political poetry journal Pemmican. I just discovered it and obviously I’m impressed. Did I say if you are a writer you should take a look at Pemmican? Okay, good. Progressives, socialists, and [...]

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