"What Coltrane and Chekhov represent is how indispensable the non-market values of love, care, concern, service to others, intimacy and gentleness are to all of us who move from womb to tomb, pursuing any sense of meaning beyond money making and profit taking." -Cornel West

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I think my poem The Crows looks very cool in Arabic. Thank you, Saleh Razzouk, for translating it: al-aalem.com/%d8%a7%d9%84...

I'm honored to announce that Baron Wormser's "The Loss of Literature" has been listed by the editors of the anthology The Best American Essays as a notable essay of 2024. Here's the link to Baron's essay in Vox Populi where it was first published: voxpopulisphere.com/2024/12/08/b...

Thank you to Saleh Razzouk for publishing my poem A Story about the Sky, an elegy for my father, in Al Aalem, an English language newspaper distributed in the Middle East: al-aalem.com/en/a-story-a...

Thanks to Catherine Parnell for including my poem A Story About the Sky in the wonderful journal Microlit: www.birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alm...

I'm grateful to Saleh Razzouk for translating my poem "The Crows" into Arabic and publishing it in the UAE magazine Al Aalem. Here's the poem in English: voxpopulisphere.com/2025/11/29/m...

Very grateful to the government of mainland China for approving my poetry to be read and translated in English language courses. Hundreds of thousands of visits to my website: voxpopulisphere.com/2025/07/27/m...

Agree 💯 With Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin......

Thank you, Marjorie Maddox, for including my poem 'Sometimes You Wake Early' in Poetry Moment, a radio show broadcast by WPSU: radio.wpsu.org/2025-12-01/p...

'm grateful to the Chinese mainland government for allowing Vox Populi poetry to be taught in schools. Laure-Anne Bosselaar's poetry is among the most commonly assigned: voxpopulisphere.com/2025/08/04/l...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/go...

Our country is being run by hypocrites, bigots and racists. Vote them out.

Trump is the only convicted felon to ever serve as president.

I just ordered Kim Davis's new collection of short stories. YAY! Here's the link: www.amazon.com/Trust-Issues...

So grateful to Lao Yang for translating my poem into Chinese, putting both versions to music and including them in his new album Ten Love Poems. Here are both English and Chinese versions: voxpopulisphere.com/2025/11/15/l...

41 years ago today, 4 brave peace activists broke into a missile silo in Missouri and smashed the weapons equipment. The participants were part of the Plowshares movement, an anti-nuclear and Christian pacifist group inspired by biblical teachings to "beat swords into plowshares."

The American rightwing coalition seems to be splintering. Congressional Republicans are turning against an unpopular Republican president. If progressives can consolidate support for candidates who share our progressive values, then we can prevail.

For the umpteenth time: We currently do NOT have a United States Congress. We don’t. The Legislative Branch of our federal government does NOT currently exist. 💯 this.👇

Adelita Grijalva did everything right - organized, campaigned, canvassed. @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social worked hard and it paid off, becoming the first Latina to represent Arizona in Congress. *Over a month ago.* What Mike Johnson is doing to her is abhorrent. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

by OpenAI’s own estimates, hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users are showing signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

I'm not distracted. Where are the Epstein Files?

The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c...

My new speculative novel THE HUMMINGBIRD WAR published by Madville is available for pre-orders: madvillepublishing.com/product/humm...

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The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Thank you, Tim Kahl and Joshua McKinney, editors of the Appalachian journal Clade Song, for including my two poems in the new issue: cladesong.com/simms.appala... cladesong.com/simms.gar.html

Ask yourselves these questions….

They just murdered another six people in the Caribbean. They didn’t even know the names of the people they just blew up. Obviously there is no evidence of drug trafficking. They could board the boats. But no. They murder people without any due process and then they celebrate their heinous acts.

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I am so pleased to have three of my poems in the Nov-Dec issue of LIVE ENCOUNTERS edited by the brilliant Mark Ulyseas: liveencounters.net/michael-simm...