Leaf
The fall
has halted
for the
yellow maple
leaf, fresh
caught, bright,
casting a
tiny shadow
in the
porch corner
from the
spider’s web
in the
last light
of this
October day:
no escape,
no meal.
by John Peter Beck is Associate Professor and Director of the Labor Education Program at Michigan State University and a poet.
Poet and author Susan Eisenberg, one of the pioneers in the struggle for women's rights, performed a poetry reading at the Creole Gallery in Lansing on February 1, 2012.
A new video interview from the Peace Education Center at last Saturday’s action in Lansing, Michigan, for the “No War on Iran: The National Day of Action.” Here Lansing resident Dick Preston talks about the prospects of U.S. war on Iran.
The Peace Education Center interviews the organizers of the "Now, More Than Ever: Educational Equity Rally at MSU," which takes place Saturday, January 28, 2012, in East Lansing.
David Cobb from the Move to Amend movement gives a compelling overview of the Corporate Personhood concept and the grassroots movement to eliminate the treatment of Corporations as "persons."
Attorney Talks About Pending Lawsuit Challenging Michigan's Emergency Manager Law
An excellent example of what the best poems do!
I dig this immensely.