Tomaž Šalamun
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Category: Archipelago Archives
Eyes Open To Praise
The poet Samuel Menash died a little more than three years ago, on August 26, 2011. I hadn’t seen him in a while. We were introduced at a writers’ party on the Upper West Side and discovered our mutual interest in Hubert Butler.
James L. Hicks, Emmett Till, Willie Reed
I don’t think we ought to forget him, or what happened in 1955 near Money, Mississippi, when two white men beat the 14-year old Emmett Till to death for verbally insulting (as they saw it) a white woman. A boy who found himself in the wrong neighborhood.
Opposed to the USA PATRIOT Act
In the June 2002 issue of Archipelago, I published an important speech by then-Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis), the only United States senator to have voted against the USA PATRIOT Act.
Living with Guns
A dozen years ago, the historic legal reading of the Second Amendment was sharply reinterpreted to allow nearly unlimited personal ownership of rifles and pistols, including those designed as man-killers.