Poem of the Week | March 06, 2017
Daniel Pritchard: "Trump Rally, March 2016"
This week, we are proud to offer a new poem by Daniel Evans Pritchard. Pritchard is a poet, essayist, and translator, as well as the founding editor of The Critical Flame, an online journal of literary nonfiction and reviews. His work has appeared in Harvard Review’s Omniglot, Slushpile, Salamander, Prodigal, Drunken Boat, The Quarterly Conversation, Rain Taxi, and elsewhere. Daniel and his family live in Greater Boston, and he tweets at @pritchard33.
Author’s note:
As I write this note, Donald Trump has just been elected President of the United States. I’m struggling to come to terms with that fact, as I’m sure you are, and figure out what to do next—and I am incredibly privileged to live a life where next is a given. I don’t take that for granted. My mother never worried about me going to the store or playing in the park. If I did nothing wrong, nobody was going to bother me; if I did something wrong, I’d be forgiven. Not murdered. I’m often surprised by how transparent whiteness is, how lightly people wear it, how dangerous it is. I shouldn’t be.
Trump Rally, March 2016
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