May 02
Shrugged Shoulders He lies to the camera with the confidence of a man who’s never been told no. They know he’s lying, we know he’s lying, he knows he’s lying. We shrug our shoulders once again and move on. Her voice polished like the golden cross emblazoned on her chest, the perfect spokeswoman gurgling up …
Apr 24
Like Falling Rain When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out ‘stop!—Bertolt Brecht “Don’t start with the good old things, but the bad new ones,” he said in my dream last night. So, here’s to Amazon warehouses, banks foreclosing our neighbors, to poets writing grant proposals, and congress collecting unearned pay. To killer drones …
Jan 18
Unseen Men in Unseen Vans In the heat-wave streets of domestic “war zones” where bodegas hum and children skip rope between potholes and broken English dreams, they came – unmarked like a reprise of a 20th century nightmare scene. Masks, protective vests, guns drawn, ICE badges stitched into plain clothes, not even the judges recognize …
Apr 23
Danny Shot’s WORKS was published in 2018 and his new collection of poetry The Jersey Slide will make its debut in the fall of 2025 also from CavanKerry Press. His prose, collected in Night Bird Flying was published in February 2025 by Roadside Press. Danny is the Poet in Residence of the Hoboken Historical Museum. He was longtime …
