The Siren-Song’s Grand Promenade
I consider this poem a prelude to Odysseus’s return from Troy, and I place it chronologically between the events of the Trojan War and his encounter with the sirens.
Mother Elephant
This poem is an excerpt from my book, "Wild Writers: The Animal World's Greatest Poets"
Biology 101 Is Now in Session
The following poem discusses the dangers of Darwinism if it is taken too far: How social Darwinism promotes eugenics. This poem is not meant to be taken literally. It was also inspired by Langston Hughes’ poem, “Cultural Exchange”.
Alone in the Universe
A poem about loneliness and hope that is perhaps my most important one so far.
When Churches Become Cults
A poem about the line between healthy belief and radicalism, regardless of faith.
Of Monsters and Men and the Arts
A poem about art and the human condition.
It’s a Wonderful Life After All!
Just how much of our lives can we claimAs our own amidst the histories named,Which people across space and timeBear witness to the thingsThat happen to us and those we […]
An Artist's Metanoia
Girded with the Sash of Knowledge,Decorated by the power to use itTo rescue whomever she chooses,My muse is amazed and amusedBy the spirit of her followers that drives themTo ardently […]
I Am the Jew
A poem that directly confronts the ideological core of Anti-Semitism, and its foul absurdity.
Andrew Blitman -- Author & Artist 