NEW TRANSLATIONS IN THE CAFE REVIEW

I am pleased to have new translations of contemporary poet Maria Galina in the special Russia issue of The Cafe Review edited by Anna Halberstadt!

"ACCUSE YOUR ENEMY OF WHAT YOU ARE GUILTY"

One of Josef Goebbels's propaganda principles was "Accuse your enemy of what you are guilty." As Congress investigates Jared Kushner's substandard Baltimore "Kushnerville" rentals, Trump lashes out in racist attack upon Oversight Chair Elijah Cummings, representative of Baltimore. Now Trump is attacking whole ciites. You would think people would rise up and vote against him in the next election, but the tactic worked as voter suppression in Detroit in 2016: See, the subtext of his message ran, the Democrats have left you in poverty, have left you in the lurch, why vote for them? I hope the consciousness raising by the Baltimore Sun and the black Obama officials helps, but Trump is a master at propaganda and must never be taken lightly.

NAZISM IN A NUTSHELL

Nazi theorists followed by Bannon and Miller advocate creating a feudal state - literally. The "deep state" they wish to destroy is education, social services, envionmental protections, anything that impedes the ruling class's amassing of wealth and power. Race wars keep people preoccupied, divided, and disempowered. Believe these people when they tell you who they are.

In Memoriam Steve Cannon

Rest in peace, poet and mentor Steve Cannon, the gatherer of tribes, the "blind guy" who saw so much.

REVIEW OF ERICA JONG'S THE WORLD BEGAN WITH YES

Congratulations to Erica Jong for being included in the Washington Post's list of 100 most important books for Fear of Flying. My review of her poetry collection The World Began with Yes appears in the July 2019 North of Oxford 
 https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/07/01/the-world-began-with-yes-by-erica-jong/

POEMS IN BENGALI JOURNAL SHADOWKRAFT

My poems "Terms of Allegiance" and "Anna Karenina #metoo" appear today in the bilingual Bengali - English journal SHADOWKRAFT. Thanks to 
editor Subhrasankar Das for the pubs!
READ POEMS HERE

https://shadowkraft.blogspot.com/2019/06/larissa-shmailo.html