FINALLY A Poem My Mother Can Show Her Friends
-by request We cannot escape our mothers in the kitchen, whether it be the boxes in the cupboard, the kind of Hamburger Helper we choose, the soap in which we soak our dirty dishes. We cannot escape...
View ArticleFrom Less Fortunate Pirates –“Spared”
Posted in response to “Thunder” by Gabrielle Bryden (and in her honor), this piece is part of my forthcoming book, Less Fortunate Pirates: Poems from the First Year Without My Father. In it, I imagine...
View ArticleOn North Carolina, Fear, and Love
Yesterday, North Carolina became the latest state to vote bigotry into its constitution, banning not only same-sex marriage but any civil union that is outside the scope of one man and one woman....
View ArticleOn North Carolina, Fear, and Love Part 2
President Obama endorses same-sex marriage in an interview with ABC News: “I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think...
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