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Originally Published: July 06, 2010No poets invited to this Tea Party?
Could the link between poets and protest movements--exemplified by Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, and others-- be broken by the Tea Party?
What drives these people is anger generated not by injustice, war, bigotry, racism, or crime but anger generated by fear, the fear that their America is changing, that providing health care, for example, for all Americans will ask them to share what they have and to level the playing field of opportunity for all Americans.