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New Challenge: To Reject Trump the Perverse, Poets Wage a Battle in Verse – An Excerpt

Published February 9, 2017 by Nan Mykel

(This may be an alternate truth) from Nicholas Kristof 9-2- 2017: NY Times Op-Ed page

trump-poetry-illegalSome people stand up to President Trump in the courts, others in street protests. And the poets among us, they battle President Trump with an arsenal of verse….

Susan McLean, a poet and English professor at Southwest Minnesota State University:

Trump seethes at what the writers say.
He’ll pull the plug on the N.E.A.
The joke’s on him. Art doesn’t pay.
We write our satires anyway.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/opinion/

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