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”
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‘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”
‘This Is Who We Are’ by Michael Tyler
By Michael Tyler, EJS Poet-in-Residence This is who we are, huddled beneath our spacious skies,Amidst amber waves of blood-soaked faith and purple mountain lies.We wretched lot of disparate kin, all yearning to be free,Pledge allegiance to a cause, from sea to shining sea.America, great America, we proclaim our fruited fame,While espousing what we’re dousing onContinueContinue reading “‘This Is Who We Are’ by Michael Tyler”