Poetry

Larry HannantDeparting from his long-standing work as an academic historian, Larry Hannant has assembled a collection of poems that lyrically evoke diverse moments from a political life. They speak to his experience as a street-level political activist devoted to progressive causes with remote chance of immediate success, a journalist intent on afflicting the comfortable, and…

In their line of work smiling is rare Uzis and tear gas the more common fare. But from ten years ago there’s photos that show Israeli goons smirking at the bravado of a Palestinian girl, not even eight, thrusting her fist in the face of their mate. Ahed Tamimi, three feet of temerity, a stripling…

You’re lucky to get oneat least one you notice.Then in one month it’s two,and two that you’d not just have heard aboutin the usual shapeless fashion –maybe from that coiffed TV anchorwomanyam-yammering onabout this or that Weird Twist of Nature;two weeks ago it was the drought,the day before yesterday a hurricanebent on blowing away the…