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Two poems about Martin Luther King and America

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From: Indianapolis Recorder
Date: 20020118
Author:Bernstein, Alice

Bernstein, Alice
Indianapolis Recorder
01-18-2002
As we celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and his courageous
opposition to racism and economic injustice, I feel people should know of
two poems by Eli Siegel, the great American poet and founder of the
philosophy aesthetic realism, from his second volume of poetry, Hail,
American Development (Definition Press, NY). With enormous respect for
Martin Luther King, Siegel expresses what America and every person in our
troubled world is hoping for.

"Something Else Should Die: A Poem with Rhymes" by Eli Siegel

In April 1865

Abraham Lincoln died.

In ...

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