Amanda Gorman – “The Hill We Climb”
Joe Biden – Kamala Harris, 2021 Inauguration.
National Youth Poet Laureate
Joe Biden – Kamala Harris, 2021 Inauguration.
National Youth Poet Laureate
Women’s March – January 21st – 2017 – Los Angeles
Photo by L.K. Thayer
“My life is based on pain, passion, and purpose.
I’m going to do what feeds my soul.”
“I’m happy that the pop songs have a bit of a twist. When I’m writing, I never know how it’s going to come out. I don’t think, well, I’ve done a catchy one, now I can do a weird one. I read a lot of poetry, and that gives me a wide range of permission to say anything in a song — they’re more twisted than I’ll ever be.” – Ric Ocacek
Louis Vuitton Exhibition – Artist, Urs Fischer – Arcimboldo
Pity The Nation
“Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced,
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice,
except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero
and aims to rule the world with force and by torture.
Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own
and no other culture but its own.
Pity the nation whose breath is money
and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.
Pity the nation — oh, pity the people who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away.
My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti – 2007