Like many people, I’ve taken to going for long walks during the lockdown. Today I buy a Fanta at the gas station near our Calgary condo, and when I step outside again, a painfully thin man astride a BMX bike asks if I have a cigarette (I don’t). I cross busy Fourteenth Street, with its loud traffic having stubbornly…
Aaron Giovannone
Aaron Giovannone teaches English literature and creative writing at Mount Royal University.
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Who says the alt-right doesn’t like poetry?
Hapless old harridans flapping their traps and other gems of verse April 2018
Donald Trump doesn’t exactly leap to mind when one thinks of great cultural benefactors. The U.S. president’s proposed budgets have twice aimed at eliminating funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, and in early 2017, Stephen Miller, Trump’s senior policy advisor, aired the idea that the poem inscribed at the base of the Statue of…