By Michael Tyler, EJS Poet-in-Residence Every day, I feel its mass with compressing concentration;Every gram of degradation in every ounce of defamation,For every pound of condemnation of a dark discrimination. Each morning that I rise, I must begin my preparation,To brace my aching back for the daily tribulation,To haul the debilitating load of my socialContinueContinue reading “‘The Weight of Being…’ by Michael Tyler”
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Words for the New Year
By Michael Tyler, Equal Justice Society Poet-in-Residence Three days into 2026, I took myself to a small café in my neighborhood. Amongst the many such establishments nearby, I frequent this one the most because it serves a brewed concoction called a Cafecito. It is also referred to as a Café Cubano, which is an intensely flavored, sweetenedContinueContinue reading “Words for the New Year”
‘In This Moment’ by Michael Tyler
Michael Tyler is Equal Justice Society’s Poet-in-Residence. Image is Pan American Unity by Diego Rivera. The moral rot of colonization has been permeating the cobblestoned creases of this nation’s foundation and invading the roughhewn lumber of its framework, since the first pavers were laid and the first nails were hammered by the immigrants who conquered thisContinueContinue reading “‘In This Moment’ by Michael Tyler”