Readers and Fans,
Thursday marks the one year anniversary of the untimely death of Tyler Clementi. On that day my poem, Requiem: Tyler Clementi, will head the website of New Verse News, with news that stays news. Here's the link: newversenews.com. New Verse News is the premiere website for progressive political poetry.
Many thanks go to my poetry workshop group, The Madeleines, and specifically to fellow poet Bonnie Naradzay for giving me the courage to write a political poem and Barbara Orton whose criticism was right on the nose, as always.
James Penha, the editor (Penha, hmm, sounds like another Portuguese-American) emailed the news tonight.
Ars Poetica,
(The Art of Poetry)
Roberto "James" Christiano
