Monthly Archives: February 2020

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147275/a-litany-for-survival …and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive. Copyright © … Continue reading →

I met Ray and his then wife Claire in Chicago  back in the late 1970’s.  I was convinced to move from the Bronx to Chicago to do political work.  I was leafleting and door knocking in the  Lithuanian neighborhood  of … Continue reading →