This Week's Writing 3/22/25

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And here’s what I published this week.

Politics

Trump claims Schumer isn’t Jewish. That’s antisemitic. (Public Notice)

The road to Trump was paved with mass incarceration. (EIH)

To fight fascism you have to fucking fight it. (EIH)

The whole Senate is complicit. (EIH)

Cultural Criticism

Langston Hughes’ poem “Goodbye Christ” exposed christofascism some 90 years ago. (Sojourner’s)

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a painful film about abuse and silence. (EIH)

Shemekia Copeland makes the blues her own. (Chicago Reader)

Poetry

A good Goose poem. (Five Fleas)

Purpose

not a good artist
or poet
not a good

man, but
propping
up the dog
snoring good

enough