His work as an attorney and lobbyist in America’s prisons and immigration detention centers brings him into contact with the growing underclasses of our society, including victims of the wars on terror, drugs and immigrants. Shankar’s work has been published in literary journals such as The ...
Winthrop House was far away by the river and for the lower classes. It was like a map of the class structure, but it wasn’t axiomatic. For example, FDR had also lived in Adams House, though that was earlier, and so had John Reed, who is buried in Red Square. Alan Graubard, a ...
I believe that there is far too much difference between social classes in this society, the rich and the poor, the rich exploiting the poor more and more, I think that something is going to change soon… My book is also about a woman in power, a woman who overturns all obstacles to ...
This was taught to me by Jane Resh-Thomas in small classes in her Minneapolis living room, where she dispensed her wisdom to all of us who eagerly made copious notes. One thing she taught us was the concept of ‘writing behind your own back’. It’s the meat of the story, underneath...
‘vary’ – pace, rhythm, expression and volume in relation to meaning. Capture performances and create class CDs, film clips or perform for other classes or in assembly. We may never fully understand Tyger but we can have it by heart and love the mystery. Bring poems alive with great ...
old drinkers who told me about their trouble with the communists. I met survivors of the Holocaust in quiet nineteenth century looking parlor rooms. I played music, taught my classes, wrote poems in bars called Café Goethe and The White Raven. I wrote letters by hand. I read books. It ...
Writeforfun has asked if I’m still taking poetry classes and I promised poetry prompts this week. My classes thus far haven’t yielded prompts or I would have shared. These two came along because I had an opportunity to submit a poem to an anthology in honor of the late poet Gwendolyn...
Daniel Gene Barlekamp writes poetry and fiction for adults and young readers. His poetry has appeared in Scifaiku, Daikaijuzine, Molecule, Horror Senryu, and elsewhere and has been translated into Mandarin by Poetry Hall. His middle-grade ghost story "The Curse of the Cat Man" is forthcomi...
I was handed heroes and heroines who had all different skin colors, were of different social classes, were skinny and fat, were gifted at different things—who were good, even if they weren’t always terribly nice. And I think she handed me that particular book—the book in which a ...
the English classes at night, the distance I am from home. But Alhamdulilah of all of this is better than the scent of a woman completely on fire, or a truckload of men who look like my father, pulling out my teeth and nails, or fourteen men between my legs, or a gun, or a prom...