Lie, lay, lain, laid, lied
Beset for years by the popular destruction of English grammar (“lie and lay” being the bete noire) and dumbfounded by the sorry saga of John Edwards’ scandalous behavior, I wrote …
Bluegrass at the Boston Roundtable
Last week I spent some time in the Boston area, where I helped lead Tom Porter’s seminar on Restorative Justice at Boston University School of Theology before moving on to …
Good Stock
I recently received an inquiry from Pamela Hanson, who asked if I knew of a poem that could be read at a memorial service for her father, Roland Hanson, who …
Legless — A Poem
This poem has been gestating for a while and finally reached a point where I can share it. It bears on a theme in Red Clay, Blood River, but is …
A People Passing Over
Having lived my entire life in the toils of our heritage of slavery and racism, I could only respond to the election of November 4, 2008, with these words: A …