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The Falcon Teaches World Democracies about Intervening in Ukraine: An American Sonnet

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: The falcon may be the new symbol for our National Character..., Credit: Susan Cook

The conviction of the falcon, not the eagle, is the model for Democracies to call upon to Intervene in Ukraine. "An American Sonnet for the Falcon."

Bought by KICI Iowa City

Three Poems for Hard Times

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "We are watching the edge of the world, held by a vision, the persistence of breath...", Credit: Susan Cook

"When Loss and Innocence", "What Courage Wears to Bed", "The Meaning of Life". Poems from the author of "Breathing: American Sonnets"

Bought by KICI Iowa City

Looking for the Wounded Deer: Doing Good in the Face of Culturally Sanctioned Aggression

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook

A Registered Maine Guide I know searched for a wounded deer - wounded but not felled- he still seeking to do good for evil - as it is perceived by ...

Three Poems for These Times

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "When loss and innocence...", Credit: Susan Cook

Three poems of loss, courage and resilience for these times.

An American Sonnet for The Woman Who Is a Journalist

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: From a buddhist center "...the cellular call, compassion..., Credit: Susan Cook

During National Poetry Month, an American Sonnet to bring us to know better the women journalists of Ukraine.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and RadioFreePalmer

Tell Me How Many Black Seabirds

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

In these times, a poem for the places we find resilience.

Bought by KICI Iowa City

Who Rules the World In a World Where Truth Really Matters

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Adolescents, the life cycle's truthtellers, any paleobiologist, or historian knows truth matters..., Credit: Susan Cook

In 2007, after the Iraq War began, Truth was traded freely for access to Power. The consequence of today's hemorrhaging of Truth requires more than...

Who Rules the World and Why It Matters, At Age 18

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Leaning back...he asked "Who rules the world?", Credit: Susan Cook

Censorship of anti-war statements is now and always has been a threat to our nation's stability and the world's safety.

Civil Disobedience: Police Respecting Protesters Can, Does And Has Happened

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Civil Disobedience means maintaining civility- a new lesson from Peace activists protesting at a Naval Destroyer christening and the Police Who Ar...

In the Department of Poetic Justice: All They Want Is Their Bonus Checks

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

From the Great American Wrongbook, in the Department of Poetic Justice, a musical tribute to the Maine Legislature's recent corporate welfare givin...

The Indifference Diaries: The Opposite of Love is Indifference: How to be a Good Neighbor and Warship Builder

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

As Bath Iron Works ships become more sophisticated in their use of sonar devices, we recall the 40 million dollar Maine Legislature approved tax br...

The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: What's Wrong With the Many Chimneys, One Smokestack Approach to Legislating

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Elected representatives have taken a new approach to legislating. Only their own district or cell or voting area can receive information from there...

Meeting An American Conscience in the Clothing Store: Made in Vietnam

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: After watching "The Vietnam War" we all know more about conscience...

Freud never quite cornered the market on Conscience. After two weeks spent with the Burns/Novick film ‘The Vietnam War”, the complexity of conscie...

Thinking About Denuclearization- What Children Know

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Children's art is an eyeglass into their view. , Credit: Susan Cook

'Chuzo Tamotzu, Children’s Drawings and the Art of Resolution’ is an exhibit hosted by the Bowdoin Art Museum which presents the artwork of childr...

Pulitzer100: Embers of War (promo)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo

- Pulitzer Award-winning historian Fred Logevall on the Vietnam War - Interviewing WWII veterans before it's too late - The lesser-known history of...

Bought by WNMU-FM

Pulitzer100: Embers of War (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

- Pulitzer Award-winning historian Fred Logevall on the Vietnam War - Interviewing WWII veterans before it's too late - The lesser-known history of...

Bought by WCNY, 91.7 WHUS Storrs, KWMR, KWSO, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more

Pulitzer100: Embers of War (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

Reading about the past sometimes gives us the impression that the Vietnam War was inevitable. But Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall...

Bought by WJCT, WLPR , WUGA (part of GPB), WFHB, KRDP and more

Who Rules Public Radio and Who Really Matters: A Bigger Ruler

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "I don't hate the press, none of them. As a matter of fact, I feel sorry for them.'', Credit: Szep, Boston Globe, July 18, 1974

Maine Public Broadcasting Network has made the perplexing decision to segregate music and poetry to a separate pay-to-hear HD radio service called ...

Big Fish, Small Pond; Small Fish, Big Pond: An American Conscience and a Vietnam Remembrance

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: The Moving Wall came to Maine not long ago before Memorial Day..., Credit: Susan Cook

History is written by the Big and the Small. "The Vietnam War" documentary has reminded us that. The Moving Wall, a half scale version of the smoot...

Constitutional Law Professor Kermit Roosevelt, author of “Allegiance”

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

“It may well be that the Senate Republicans would be better off confirming some moderate Obama nominee to the Supreme Court now, rather than having...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio

The Happiness of the Human Family and Its Familiar Enemy

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, Tolstoi wrote as the first sentence in Anna Karenina. The epitaph he c...