I’m writing to ask that you immediately remove Louis DeJoy, the Postmaster General of the Postal Service, from the Board of Trustees of your esteemed college.
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Template Letters to Send the Board of Governors of the USPS
August 15, 2020
We cannot let this stand; it WILL NOT stand. America is the land of the free and we’re gonna keep it that way!
An Open Letter to the Board of Governors of the USPS
August 15, 2020
I demand that you immediately fire the Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, who is clearly doing the President’s bidding and turning the USPS into a partisan tool.
Shock and Awe Politics
June 27, 2020
If politics is war, Republicans have historically waged it more ruthlessly, and more successfully, than Democrats and Independents
The Righteously Aggrieved
June 22, 2020
When statues topple, they do little heaving.
You will not see them celebrate long their fall
or mount the wreckage on a wall.
(Who are you to ask that they applaud
your moment of awakening?
Play by the Rules
June 19, 2020
To be trapped in an era, this era,
is the poet’s nightmare and delight. O future
readers—if there will be readers—what will you make
of this? What shall I—what shall we—bequeath you?
How Can We Lose When We’re So Sincere?
June 14, 2020
The true traitor lacks not morals but moral imagination. I shall
no longer grant the premise that we must debate amidst the
rubble of a world the unimaginative have plundered—
It’s Complicated
June 7, 2020
A friend texted to say it’s irresponsible to protest during a pandemic. All those people
crowded together become vectors for the virus, which doesn’t care about race. I hadn’t
thought of Covid-19 as post-racial, the enlightened bug.
Helium
May 29, 2020
The last thing he saw was the joy in her eyes.
Back home the flowers have wilted and the balloon,
twisting slowly in the now-stale air,
sinks lower and lower to the ground.
On Doing Good in America
May 13, 2020
“How does one with no boots
pull himself up by his bootstraps?”
“Why teach someone to fish
then deny them access to the lake?”