“I developed such a love for poetry that I became an enthusiastic poet,” a beaming Marshall recently recounted. In 1991, he received an award from the World Poetry Press of Sacramento, California, when his submission reached the semi-finals of that year’s competition. He was invited in A...
Today of course we would be more likely to see Republicans criticizing urban Democratic “machines” and screeching about rigged elections, but in the Philadelphia of Propper’s day it was Republicans who were running the show and long had been, althoug...