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Latest Essays at The medium and other writings

Some recent posts: Why another Democratic moderate is the wrong prescription; an essay on Langston Hughes’ ‘Harlem’; and new poems at Adelaide

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Deval Patrick? WTF?

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“This is not 1972 — nor is it 1992, when the right-centrist Bill Clinton won in a three-way race. Trump has upended the debate, but not in the ways we are used to. Trump is a proto-fascist, a right-wing demagogue who has fused economic populism with strongman rhetoric, racism, and Christian Dominionism. Democrats can run to the past, like Biden, or pretend that moderation will win back swing voters, and they may squeak past Trump, which is the primary short-term goal. What it does not do is address the very real anxieties that exist among the American electorate that allowed someone like Trump to rise in the first place.”

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“Harlem,” by Langston Hughes, is a poem whose meaning resides in its title.

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Five poems at Adelaide magazine

I have five poems — “Father Becomes the Son,” “This Is What Religion Does,”  “Scavengers,” “Ode to El Tiante,” and “Ghosts at the Acme” — at Adelaide.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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