A CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR A 'BANNED WORDS ANTHOLOGY'

This is A Call for THE ANTHOLOGY THAT WRITES ITSELF, which would be poets writing poems addressing the Administration's ban of 7 words. I wrote one which was swiftly accepted for publication. Read the article, Poet, if you haven't already, and poem-ize away. My poem, structured partly around a dialogue with a visiting family friend Harry, ends with

“Really?” Harry asks. “Who can protect
from                                               light?”

     Fetus
     Transgender
     Vulnerable
     Entitlement
     Diversity
     Evidence-based
    Science-based

In that science based on evidence, fragility
is not the domain only of the vulnerable, like
the fetus. Nor is transgender a synonym for
weakness. Diversity’s inescapable reality
will burn down the castle walls of entitlement
No one can be protected from light

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DEADLINE: Dec. 23. Send to, or ask questions of, me at galateaten@gmail.com