Showing posts with label immigration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label immigration. Show all posts
Monday, March 17, 2025

Irish poet Eavan Boland: "Memory itself has become an emigrant"

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The title poem of Eavan Boland's collection "The Lost Land" always moves me. It begins as a confessional with "I have two...
Sunday, January 26, 2025

The ballad of Baba the Thin Man and the Good Ship Cameronia

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My sister sent me a packet of stuff she cleaned out of her attic. In it, I found a printout from The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundati...
Tuesday, October 06, 2020

Family Lore: in May 1915, Martin Hett waits in Liverpool for a British ship that isn't sunk by U-boats

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My sister Molly sent me a packet of family letters and documents a few months ago and asked me to make sense of them, see if they came toget...
Thursday, September 05, 2019

SANKOFA African Heritage Awareness presents Oct. 12 conference on timely topic of racism w/update

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This Cheyenne conference addresses the very timely topic of racism in the U.S.  From a press release: Nate Breen, LCSD1 board membe...
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Artists respond to Trumpists' barbaric immigration policies

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From the "13 Artists on: Immigration" article in today's New York Times Style Magazine: Art Spiegelman's "A Warm W...
Friday, January 26, 2018

Is there really such a thing as "compassionate conservatism" in the U.S.?

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I am pleased with any response I get from my missives to the all-Republican Wyoming Congressional delegation. Not pleased so much as satisfi...
Thursday, January 11, 2018

The sordid tale of the proposed Wyoming private prison for immigrants

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It's not a prison, says the people building a prison for immigrants in southwest Wyoming's Uinta County. And so says Gov. Mead...
Wednesday, April 05, 2017

May 1 Cheyenne exhibit will showcase the stories and struggles of immigrants

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Interested in participating in this exhibit? Contact Adrienne Vetter in Laramie,
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Call for artists: Juntos Wyoming May 1 exhibit

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Here's a call for entries for a May 1 exhibit in Cheyenne that's part of the May Day March to Keep Families Together sponsored by J...
Thursday, March 02, 2017

U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera speaks about poetry and migration April 21 in Jackson

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This news just came in from the Wyoming Arts Council Literary News e-mail blast:  Presenting U.S. Poet Laureate: Juan Felipe Herrera   ...
Friday, September 09, 2016

The Broncos vs. The Bard

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A writer, dead for 400 years, caused me to miss the first half of the Denver Broncos season opener. I know, where are my priorities? Willi...
Saturday, July 26, 2014

Wyoming Democrats respond

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The Wyoming Democratic Party is fighting back in a timely manner, which I appreciate. We are outnumbered by Republicans. That is true and ...
Sunday, July 06, 2014

Sunday morning round-up

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Half-awake on a January morning, I hear a lawnmower and think of summer. Then I'm fully awake and realize that my neighbor is clearing t...