Category Archives: democracy

You have to laugh or else you’ll cry

Posted on November 27, 2019 by

    My image  of my own garden     Since my husband died I have been afflicted with recurrent UTI’s. This year  has been the worst I have only one  entire month  when I was well. Unfortunately   they affect … Continue reading →

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Whitman and Democracy

Posted on November 15, 2019 by

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/151134/filthy-presidentiad-walt-whitman-in-the-aocracyge-of-trump?utm_source=Poetry+Foundation&utm_campaign=9043ea8aed-POFO-NOV-15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ff7136981c-9043ea8aed-185545637&mc_cid=9043ea8aed&mc_eid=548544474a   EXTRACT Walt Whitman is two hundred years old in 2019—and the bicentennial of democracy’s bard falls in the shadow of a demagogic presidency. John Marsh, in his book In Walt We Trust: How a Queer Socialist Poet Can Save America … Continue reading →

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