Michael Allyn Wells

In between the screeches of outgoing missals there are explosions that shake you about. In between apartment buildings there is conc...

Crazy week we've just had. Scott McClellan, the former press point man for the Bush Administration writes an unflattering view of the Bu...

Reportedly speaking in a condescendent tone, Sen. John McCain challenged Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday to travel to Iraq with him to better...

When White House officials claim to be puzzled by Scott McClellan's assertions about the Bush administration in his new memoir, I find ...

STOP THE PRESSES! McCain: U.S. can win Iraq war within 4 years And he assumes we believe this? And he assumes we are willing to drain anot...

Transcript of Washington Post Discussion Book World: 'Here, Bullet' Iraq War Poetry with Poet and Veteran Brian Turner

I'm not posting my day 8 NaPoWriMo draft poem yet.... because it has yet to be drafted, but we are at day 8 of the month and blogger st...

Last night was our bi-weekly meeting of K.C. Metro Verse - a local chapter of the Missouri State Poetry Society. I did not take much of my ...

Anniversary The odometer of fallen, rolls onward Over too familiar terrain. A merry-go-round insanity Propelled by stubborn indignity, Denia...

When Senator John McCain said yesterday to win the general election he must convince a war-weary country that U.S. policy in Iraq is succee...

From Kelli @ First Draft

Wine anyone? At left is a snapshot of a portion of an art piece that was done the the top raps of wine bottles the cover the corks. A grippi...

"I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves r...

Marvin Bell is gray haired and bearded. The 70 year old is Iowa's first Poet Laureate. In the mid 1960's Bell was an army officer ...

The birthday boy and his brothers enjoyed a home cooked meal for a change. K gets so freek'n excited when we sing happy birthday to hi...

I read with amazement this article about the retirement of former House Speaker Dennis Hastert. After all this time he blames the GOP losses...

A slumping night Wept for those pressed into duty battle By grown men with archaic presence of mind To plunder the natural order- peace- I...

It's Tuesday, it feels like it should be Wednesday and I wish it was Thursday. How's that for defying reality? Further, I really hav...

This past week I received an e-mail from Jeff Charis-Carlson, Opinion Editor for the Iowa City Press-Citizen. He noted an earlier post in wh...

Over the weekend Sen. Russ Feingold called for the censure of President Bush by Congress. He laid out his two part basis for censure on M...