Sunday, November 25, 2012

Dorianne Laux

 
Hi Dorianne,
You are the subject of my new blog post: http://wwwtheamericandissidentorg.blogspot.com/2012/11/dorianne-laux.html. Feel free to comment, though I expect you won't. Poets tend to scorn vigorous debate, cornerstone of democracy. 

Monday, November 19, 2012

Joan Houlihan

 
Read the amazingly stupidly contradictory statement poetry autocrat Joan Houlihan wrote me on dissidence here:  http://www.theamericandissident.org/orgs/concord_poetry_center.html

Freedom of Speech


Above is the front cover for Issue #21 of The American Dissident.  It's part of a series titled "Democracy" and is called "The Schizophrenic Citizen," depicting the conflict between rude truth and civility, the latter generally imposed in academe at the expense of the former.