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Poetry

• July 8 -- "Sensual" Stalinist Poet Neruda Embraced "Social Justice"
Carolyn Curiel pens a tribute to deceased Communist poet Pablo Neruda: "a sensual communist who loved nature almost as much as he loved women, food and wine.…for Neruda, love and beauty vied for attention with social justice." Curiel doesn't mention Neruda's other love: Stalin.

• November 12 -- Dead Poets Society Takes Bush on Over Iraq
Adam Cohen salutes World War I poet Wilfred Owen in order to scorn Bush's conduct of the Iraq war: "Owen was right that an honorable approach to war requires both ably leading troops on the battlefield, and reporting honestly what occurs there. The Bush administration, however, is resisting this honorable approach….He avoids mentioning the American dead...”

• September 26 -- Ashcroft, Bush, and the Beatniks
Dean Murphy visits San Francisco’s famous beatnik bookstore, City Lights, and invests the aging pre-hippie bohemians with dissident allure: “Yet in the era of George W. Bush and John Ashcroft, the dissident Beat voices are enjoying a renaissance of sorts….”