When I began my anti-Jack Schlossberg campaign in April, all polls of New York’s 12th congressional district showed Schlossberg way ahead of the pack (with Republican-in-Democratic-garb George Conway second!). I recommended that voters wait until just before the start of primary voting and see who was ahead in the polls at that time—Alex Bores or [...] Read More... from With Schlossberg Down, It’s…
This post is directed at voters living in New York’s 12th Congressional district. NY12, geographically the smallest Congressional district in the country, includes some of the most famous neighborhoods in the world, including Central Park, Chelsea, Garment District, Hell’s Kitchen, Lincoln Center, Theater District, Times Square, Union Square, the Upper East Side, and the Upper [...] Read More...…
The latest Tiny Moments, just out, has my poem, The Hummingbird : The Hummingbird Same day late July, every year by backyard fence,single blur of beryl green and ruby, finger-length,squeaked like sneakers running polished wood,hovered over foxglove and impatiens, unseen long bill probing pink and purple,unseen tongue grooves lapping pollen,unseen stretched wings stroking circles. I called [...]…
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About nine years ago, I wrote an OpEdge article that in the idealized world of television commercials people care about their pets as much as they do about their children. At the time it seemed as if every other commercial featured dogs or cats, and in most, the animal was a best friend, family member, [...] Read More... from Dogs and dancers dominate the imaginary world created by TV commercials
Minyan Magazine has just published my poem, Eve Offers Adam a Cyclamen, my take on the Adam and Eve myth. Eve Offers Adam a Cyclamen Some say it’s an apple, some say an orange or fig—hanging at arm’s length from one branch of a tree of life, the product of action, not action itself, [...] Read More... from Minyan Magazine has published Eve Offers Adam a Cyclamen
The “Barbie” movie completes the conversion of Barbie from a symbol of paternalistic sexism to a hero of feminism.Nobody but old Boomers will remember that when Barbie first came out in 1959, it quickly became a symbol of women’ subjugation to traditional paternalism—her oversized breasts alone seemed to fulfill a man’s fantasy more than a [...] Read More... from Free To Be Whatever You Want To Be…
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I have two poems in the latest issue of Sin Fronteras. Here is one of them: WHY EVERYONE’S FAVORITE UNCLE MISSED THE WEDDING From table to table he goes like stations of the cross, from meeting to weeping to nailing. They eat each other’s salt and it tastes like flesh, they touch each other’s flesh [...] Read More... from TWO NEW POEMS IN SIN FRONTERAS