by John Feffer, E. Ethelbert Miller | May 15, 2007 | Environment
Kalamu ya Salaam is a writer and educator from New Orleans. An extensive collection of his writings, plus a feature-length interview are available online at Chicken Bones. You can read his poem You can’t survive on salt water in FPIF’s Fiesta. He talks...
by John Feffer, Kalamu ya Salaam | May 15, 2007 | Uncategorized
You can’t survive on salt water -seven haiku for old orleans- 1.dead dogs hang from treesbloated barges sit on thewrong side of levees 2.dumb pigeons have flownnow it’s people’s turn to perchroasting atop roofs 3.a caravan ofyellow busses drowns...
by Emily Schwartz Greco, Stephen Zunes | May 14, 2007 | War & Peace
I first heard it while driving home from work on a college FM station. It was a song I had forgotten about but had known, with slightly different opening lyrics, in my childhood: If you love this land of the freeBring ’em home, bring ’em homeBring them...
by John Feffer, Aaron Hughes | Apr 5, 2007 | Uncategorized
This is how I wanted to see my self… This is what I thought we would do in Iraq That’s what I always thought we were about… Barefoot, little kids… I remember that one there… he couldn’t have been five years old Just a damn little...
by John Feffer, E. Ethelbert Miller | Apr 4, 2007 | Uncategorized
Martin Espada and E. Ethelbert Miller, photo courtesy of Reginald Dwayne Betts. Martin Espada is a poet and English professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. His eighth collection of poems, The Republic of Poetry, was published last October. He is, in the...
