Category Archives: POETRY
THE TIME A POET SAVED NEW YORK’S TREES
PHILIP FRENEAU, THE POET OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION in the late 1700s, had earlier been a roommate at a New Jersey college (soon to become Princeton University) with none other than James Madison, the principal author of what was to become the U.S. Constitution. Freneau was a tree-hugger as well as an anti-federalist, who became […]
FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH
“For What It’s Worth” is the first “snippet” introducing Mitchel Cohen’s new book, “The Rubber Stamp Man: Poems & Snippets”. THE YEAR WAS 1979. Genevieve – the nom de guerre I’m assigning to this member of our Red Balloon Collective and Poetry Conspiracy (she did after all look like Genevieve Bujold) – returned trembling to […]
MACKLEMORE’S GREAT SONG AND VIDEO
https://x.com/i/status/1837225591675965518 MACKLEMORE’S SONG https://x.com/i/status/1837225591675965518 From Mitchel Cohen: Here, it stops The circles of deceit broken promises, rancid dreams here it stops this beach of crushed utopias preparations for world war here it stops this litany of lies false refuge in religion here it stops Israel murders in our name here it stops imperial designs here […]
THE BONES OF SEPTEMBER
by Mitchel Cohen, from The Permanent Carnival Two vast and trunkless legs of steel Like silent Pharaohs over Wall Street stood Scraping the vast canvas of immortality
ZELENSKY: COKE ADDICT?
Watch this first: https://twitter.com/i/status/1624078475773583360 New words by Mitchel Cohen to tune of Kodachrome by Paul Simon When I look back at all the coke I snort in Ukraine It’s a wonder I can breathe at all And though the lack […]
KATIE HALPER FIRED BY “THE HILL” FOR CHALLENGING ISRAEL’S APARTHEID AGAINST PALESTINIANS
Right on to Katie Halper and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for challenging the Democrats in Congress over their financing of Israeli apartheid. Germane to Katie’s post below is a poem/song I wrote in 1988: https://www.mitchelcohen.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Here-it-Stops-1988.mp3 from Mondoweiss Katie Halper loses job at ‘The Hill’ after calling on progressives to dismantle Israeli apartheid The firing of […]
POEMS: THE PERMANENT CARNIVAL & IN MEMORIAM
Mitchel Cohen recites the lead poem in his book, The Permanent Carnival (order by clicking on the picture on the Left, please), with orchestration (such as it is) and ooomph! CLICK HERE to hear the poem! CLICK HERE to read it, and read along! Mitchel Cohen recites his In Memoriam, a poem he has read […]
ON PINOCHET’S CAPTURE (song by Mitchel Cohen & Victor Jara)
Song by Mitchel Cohen and Victor Jara ON PINOCHET’S CAPTURE Words & Music by MITCHEL COHEN I awoke one day it was early September A prisoner in my own land For fighting against the war that my country Was waging against Vietnam How sad I remember it came over the news Jangling the bars to […]
IN WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK
Like invisible ink encoded in our genes Spring, irrepressible, suddenly emerges baked in the sun. Global warming, tornadoes, nukes, imperialist wars, collateral damage for a few minutes slip out of mind, out to sea with bin Laden’s body and Fukushima’s rods. We have too few moments uncluttered. Remember how joyous life could be? Recharge those […]
