Spring, 2024: Our Dead Are Different From Yours and Sparrow Generations and No One Was There will appear in The Gulf Tower Forecasts Rain edited by Doralee Brooks, Poet Laureate of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Apr2023 Memorial Day 2019 and Sunday Drive and appeared in American Graveyard, Calls to end gun violence edited by Marissa Prada. Jun2022 Curly Red Hair appeared in English and Italian in Correnti Incrociate 2 (Italian Edition) from Mosaique Press, edited by Linda Barone and John Eliot. May2022 To Be Right appeared in Work Lifespan Vol. 5 from Pure Slush Press. Nov2021 That Familiar Comfort appeared in Echoes of the African Drums compiled by William Warigon. Nov2021 When Will We Reap the Whirlwind? and Strange Days appeared with poetry from all over the world in many languages in Spring's Blue Ribbon International Poetry, edited by Gino Leineweber. Nov2021 Memorial Day, 2019 appeared in The Disasters of War from Moonstone Press. Oct2021 Not My Nightmare appeared in World Poetry Anthology published by Cooch Behar Magazine. Oct2021 Not My Nightmare appeared in Protest 2021, 1000 Poets for Change published by Moonstone Press. Sep2021 The Big Lie is a folio of four pieces: In the Beginning, Martha's Dowry and George's Will, My Dear Friend, Shameless. It appeared in Fixed and Free Poetry Anthology 2021, edited by Billy Brown. Sep2021 Our Shared Humanities appeared in 25th Anniversary - Poetry Ink Anthology from Moonstone Press. Mar2021 Sunday Drive appeared in Spread the Word: A Pandemic Open Mic Anthology Feb2019 Breendonk Generations and Discovery appeared in The Dreamer's Anthology: Writing Inspired by the Lives of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank Aug2018 Yard Sale, appeared in English and Farsi in Persian Sugar in English Tea III Feb2018 Bob and Autumn and Dream Street appeared in English and Farsi in Persian Sugar in English Tea I |
On May 2, 2019, Yom Hashoah, a group of us held a memorial reading for the holocaust of World War 2 at the Riverdale Hebrew Home in the Bronx, NY:
Deborah Kahan Kolb, Pinny Bulman, Janet R. Kirchheimer, Nina Kossman, Alyssa A. Lappen, Mindy Rinkewich, Geza Rohrig, Sarah Stern, Alan Walowitz, and Zelda Fassner.
Here is the Recorded video.
Tribute to the Class of '66 describes the occasion and appeared in
The Blue Nib.
April 14, 2022, 9:00 PM Eastern, 6:00 PM Pacific
It's About Time Writers' Reading Series.
with
Nicole Hardina and Larry Crist.
Here is the recording..
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The Times of Israel: 14May2024: Religious Fundamentalism: Setup for Failure. 9Oct2024: Indifference to Innocents' Suffering is a Sickness. 13Oct2024: Unveiling on Yom Kippur. The Tallahassee Democrat: Dec2023: Is college athletics about education or financial profits?. oddball magazine: May2023: The Apologists for Fukushima, an Essay Mar2024: Is It Supreme Court Justice or Is It Just Cowardice? Apr2024: A Higher Standard of Conduct: The Appearance of Wrongdoing The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: 13Oct2021: Unveiling 11Sep2022: America Still Cowed by 19 Terrorists 16Mar2024: The only way to resolve Donald Trump's legal responsibility Oct2022: Our Dead Are Different From Yours appeared as the closing piece in Lynn Butler's Flames Against the Darkness, Saving America's Sacred Sites. Haiku appeared in The Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan's national newspapers, 19Jul2019, 2Aug2019, 15Nov2019, 21Aug2020, 18Nov2022, 5Jul2024, 1Nov2024, These poems appeared in Prodigy Magazine in December, 2022: Discovery, Uncounted, and Strange Days. Discovery and Strange Days originally appeared in 2020 in Our Shared Humanties, a microchap from Origami Poems Project. Strange Days was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. These poems appeared in Beltway Quarterly: March2022 (Without Borders): Long Time Coming, Alien Creature at the Door, Christmas at Grandma's, Teflon, Coming in off the Farm. Fall2020 (Art in Times of Crisis): Sunday Drive, Legacy of the Golden Calf, Lock-Down Three Times, Social Distancing Three Times. These poems appeared in The Red Wheelbarrow Poets Oct2021: Demi-God 20/20 Oct2022: For No Reason Dec2020: Sunday Morning Surgery, appeared in American Journal of Nursing Apr2021: Cassandra, Daughter of Troy appeared in Greek (translated by Sarah Thilikou) in Peri Ou Journal Apr2023: Cassandra, Daughter of Troy appeared in English in Lothlorien Poetry Journal and again in Apr2024 in Aphelion These poems appeared in The Raw Art Review Dec2019 (Summer Issue): Memorial Day, Obeah, Somebody to Love, Jun2020 (Winter Issue): That Familiar Comfort, Not My Nightmare To Save a Life Is to Save the World, These poems appeared online in I Am Not A Silent Poet Oct2019: Just Another Sinner, White Out Three Times, Hall's Bayou on CNN, Close-Captioned Oct2019: Election Day appeared online in Trailer Park Quarterly. Jun2019: Long Time Coming appeared in print in The Boom Project Anthology. Sep2019: Patriot Act Three Times appeared in Dissident Voice & The Taj Mahal Review. Jul2019: Ascent from Purgatory appeared in The Ekphrastic Review ...reading.... Mar2020: The Wren on the Sidewalk appeared online in Foxglove Journal These poems appeared online in Tuck Magazine. Jul2016: Passover Prayer (Vox Populi) Sep2016: All the Same Nov2016: On The Block Dec2016: Gladiator, Our Dead Are Different From Yours Nov2017: Dear Judge Moore Feb2018: Discovery (Vox Populi), Rain and Fog, Marching Orders Mar2018: We Should Have Known Jun2018: Why He Said It -- Helsinki Sep2018: Artekovite Forever! Feb2018: Florida Daydream appeared online in These Fragile Lilacs Magazine. |
The Mid-Atlantic Review: May2024: That Familiar Comfort appeared as part of the journal's celebration of black history month. Jul2024: In the Beginning and Our President's Prayer Mar2022: Apr2022: My Dear Friend appeared in Poetry Super Highway Mar2022: No One Was There appeared in Drunk Monkeys and in the English language pieces curated by Tanya Ko Hong for the Korean anthology, Flowers Blooming on Top of Scars. Oct2021: Remembrance in the Mist appeared in Transiti Poetici: I See Bellagio from My Terrace in both Italian (trans: Susana H. Case) and English. Apr2021: Apr2021 Not My Nightmare appeared in Dissonance Magazine Revised from a version which originally appeared in Raw Art Review. Feb2021: Martha's Dowry and George's Will appeared in Poetry Super Highway Nov2020: Gluten Free appeared at PoetryXHunger's World Food Day Jun2020: Invisible appeared in the 50th Anniversary Issue of Seneca Review These lyric essays/poems appeared online in The Blue Nib. 2Jun2020: A New World, That Which Is Missing, Tribute to the Class of '66, 2Jul2020: Legacy of the Golden Calf, Sparrow Generations, 11Aug2020: The Glass House 26Sep2020: Police State 13Oct2019: Unveiling appeared in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. and Vox Populi. These poems appeared in print and online in Live Mag! Dec2019: Celebration of Claudia, 1970. These poems appeared online in Entropy Magazine Nov2017: Hall's Bayou on CNN, Close-Captioned Oct2019: The Laugh with the Lilt These poems appeared online in VerseWrights Oct2017: Eighth Grade Shop, Bob and Autumn, Uncounted These poems appeared online in (Verse-Virtual Jun2019: Dream Street May2021 In the Beginning, Martha's Dowry and George's Will with Afterward from the Writing Workshop, My Dear Friend, ((Verse-Virtual) Breendonk Generations (Vox Populi) Feb2019 Why He Said It appeared online in Writers Resist This poem appeared online in Vox Poetica Jul2018 White Out Three Times These poems appeared online in Uppagus Dec2017: Yard Sale, Jul2018: Standing By These poems appeared in print and online in Neurology Sep2017: A Difficult Kind of Listening, Sep2018: (Neurology) Saturday Night On Call, Battle Fatigue Sep2019: Razor String Mantra appeared in Spillwords. |
Breendonk Generations
Anna and Isaac met in an orphanage where they were hidden as Catholics. They married in Antwerp. The house door was six inches thick. Two great bolts shot into the frame. The floor safe held half a million. Their son, Len, drove me to see Breendonk, Belgium's first camp, a feeder for Dachau, dorms filled with wood bunks, a museum, gallows outside. I felt only faintly what it was to live there yet I will not visit another. Len waited for those hours in the car. 2. An hour after Leah gave birth her room was filled as they do in Belgium, eating and laughing. She lay in exhausted sleep. Bobby was in an anteroom absent fingernails and eyebrows, asleep like his mother, too small to be held, they felt. Knowing no better, I was the first, held him with these hands. I bought a crib, clothes, everything the next day, as they do in Belgium. That evening we sat together, new family, full with each other. Anna, Bobby's grandmother, showed an old picture, her father and his 5 brothers murdered when she was a girl. Bobby is 18 now, his sister, Amy, 10. Leah and Len are divorced. We're all on Facebook. Text+Audio Oct2017, VerseWrights Mar2018, Jewish Literary Journal, May2018, Vox Populi, Apr2019, The Dreamer's Anthology, Apr2020, Poetry Super Highway, |
Hall's Bayou on CNN, Close-Captioned
Out Front with Erin Burnett is on TV at the gym, Ric Saldivar tells how it happened. His brother, Sammy, turned off toward the bridge. The water was half up the guard rail. He hesitated, then drove slowly across. On the other side the road dipped and the van floated, Sammy got out through the side window, left his parents and his four grand children screaming. He told Ric: They went to heaven holding hands. Your cheeks flushed, Erin, when he said: flood water covered the bridge. You hid your face when he said: left them screaming. They're still finding bodies in the Freetown mud slide, more than a thousand, and this year's monsoon, twelve hundred dead, millions homeless. Erin, why do I care nothing for them? Entropy Magazine, Dec2017 |