By Bill Castanier on April 23, 2013
Call or Uncalled
Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit.
-Erasmus
Marx or Aphrodite
Tehran or Jerusalem
Boehner or Barack
Pyongyang or Seoul
Guns or Butter
The conflict doesn’t matter
whether asked or not,
our better self
turns on a simple gesture.
An open hand, that holds nothing.
by Sam Mills
Sam Mills is a Lansing poet and writer. He was recently named the poet laureate of Lansing Online News.
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Bill Castanier has been an award-wining weekly newspaper editor, advertising and public relations executive in his 40 year career. In addition, he has been an executive with a newspaper trade association and founded Michigan’s first technology association, I-TE@M. He writes a weekly newspaper feature on Michigan authors and is on the Board of the Kerrytown BookFest and the Michigan Notable Book Awards. He has the only daily blog on Michigan literature (
Mittenlit) and founded
Spartanpodcast.com.
