Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

This poem grabbed my attention because it captures the moment, as good poetry does. It was posted on Facebook by friend and one-time writing...

Antiwar protests on college campuses are in the news and it’s no longer 1970. In the spring of 2024, young people are objecting to Israel’s ...

  Reposted from a friend's Facebook page. Introduced me to a U.S. poet with Front Range connections whose work I didn't know. It bri...

An e-mail I sent to Sen. Barrasso this morning. I sent one to Sen. Lummis with slightly different wording: Dear Sen. Barrasso: I hope you ...

I feel almost giddy as this week spells the end of Trump in the White House and a new president installed. A new day for Washington, D.C., a...

We witnessed a coup attempt Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol Building. Trump and his goons incited other goons to storm the Capitol and disrupt...

Time to take stock of the year that was. I wrote 67 posts this year. Published posts, that is. I wrote 10 or more that I didn't post. Th...

A viral plague kills thousands and forces millions to hunker down at home and practice social distancing when out in public. Black America...

Last night it appeared that the country was coming unglued. I'm not talking about the pandemic or massive unemployment or peaceful dem...

This Saturday, thousands of young people will stage the March for Our Lives anti-gun violence rally in Washington, D.C. Expecting huge crowd...

From "Divine Ammunition" at the UW Art Museum: Al Farrow,  Trigger Finger of Santo Guerro , guns, gun parts, bullets, shell cas...

Neo-Nazis support President Trump. President Trump supports the neo-Nazis. We know that now. Whatever you choose to call them -- neo-Naz...

Republicans are aghast that someone would be so angry as to take a shot at Congressional reps practicing for a baseball game in Alexandria, ...

"Violence is as American as cherry pie." Black Panther and SNCC activist H. Rap Brown said this is a 1960s speech in Maryland. H...

Wyoming's small community of liberal bloggers has been challenged by the controversy surrounding one of our own, Meg Lanker-Simons of Co...

My friend and fellow prog-blogger Meg Lanker-Simons in Laramie was attacked online this week. Here's what an unidentified person said o...

This is but a small part of President Obama's Plan to Protect our Children & Communities, which was announced this morning. I'm ...

Bucking Jenny is one of the members of the WY Progressives' blogroll, a loose confederation of Wyoming prog-bloggers (see right sidebar)...

Jason Payseno of EAP Glass installs plywood where a window was shot out Friday at an Obama campaign office on West Ninth Avenue near Aco...

This is not right. From an AP wire service story: So far this year the number of suicides in the military has surged beyond expectation...