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Immigration Talks in Congress? History Shows that Immigration Law is All About Keeping People Out.

Posted on January 28, 2018 by BobknoxJanuary 28, 2018

As part of last week’s budget bill compromise, Congress promised to discuss immigration legislation. If history is any guide, that’s nothing to celebrate. The history of immigration legislation in this country is all about keeping people out. A century ago … Continue reading →

Posted in American History, fiction, novels, Suosso's Lane | Tagged Anarchists, criminal justice, Immigration, Italians, North Plymouth, Plymouth, Sacco and Vanzetti, Suosso's Lane, wrongful conviction | Leave a reply

My Poem on Charity and Hospitality in an Age of Plastic

Posted on September 6, 2017 by BobknoxSeptember 6, 2017

My poem on the difficult issue of living charitably and hospitably, as moral authorities such as the writers of the New Testament say we should, is appearing in the September issue of the online poetry journal, Verse-Virtual. The poem is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Verse-Virtual.com | Tagged Book of Matthew, Charity, Firestone Feinberg, Gardeners Do It With Their Hands Dirty, Hospitality, Immigration, Perseids | Leave a reply

Anti-Immigrant Hysteria: Then and Now

Posted on March 18, 2017 by BobknoxMarch 18, 2017

The black-and-white photo below pictures a moment in the  round-up of immigrants in America 100 years ago. The suspicious ‘outsiders’ are white-skinned people from southern and eastern Europe — Italians, Jews, Poles, Russians, Greeks, Serbs, Ukrainians, Lithuanians. The mass round-up … Continue reading →

Posted in American History | Tagged 2016 presidnetial election campaign, criminal justice, ICE, Immigration, Latinos, Muslims. undocumented, Sacco and Vanzetti, Vanzetti, wrongful conviction | Leave a reply

Build a Wall? Lessons From 1920

Posted on January 25, 2017 by BobknoxJanuary 25, 2017

If you wanted to build a wall a hundred years ago, it would have had to be on the Atlantic. I’ll be speaking on my novel “Suosso’s Lane” at Duxbury Library on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2 p.m., my first opportunity … Continue reading →

Posted in American History, Suosso's Lane | Tagged 2016 presidnetial election campaign, Anarchists, Build a wall, criminal justice, Immigration, Italians, Red Scare, Sacco, Sacco and Vanzetti, Suosso's Lane, wrongful conviction | Leave a reply

Women’s Marches Knit the World Together

Posted on January 23, 2017 by BobknoxJanuary 23, 2017

  It’s very unusual to see the entire world celebrating — or even acknowledging — the same important moment at the same time. The last example of this to my mind is the worldwide welcoming of the new millennium at … Continue reading →

Posted in American History | Tagged 2016 presidnetial election campaign, 2017, human rightrs, Immigration, Jan. 21, Women's March | Leave a reply

Sacco and Vanzetti in a Time of Trump

Posted on December 30, 2016 by BobknoxDecember 30, 2016

It’s a New Year. I hope 2017 is not the year in which we say goodbye to the two century-plus long experiment in American democracy. Or, equally as worrying, the beginning of a political breakdown that will lead to social … Continue reading →

Posted in Suosso's Lane | Tagged 2016 presidnetial election campaign, criminal justice, Immigration, Italians, Joe DiMaggio, Sacco and Vanzetti, Suosso's Lane, Trump, trumpery, Vanzetti | Leave a reply

I’ll Be Reading From and Speaking on “Suosso’s Lane” at Pilgrim Hall on Nov. 2

Posted on October 31, 2016 by BobknoxOctober 31, 2016

“Suosso’s Lane,” a book named after a street in North Plymouth, has some considerable history in West Bridgewater. The prosecution theory, to use the word loosely, of how Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco were involved in the robbery of the shoe … Continue reading →

Posted in Suosso's Lane | Tagged Anarchists, criminal justice, Ferruccio Coacci, Immigration, Italians, Mario Buda, Michael Stewart, North Plymouth, Puffer's Place, Ricardo Orciani, Sacco and Vanzetti, Suosso's Lane, West Bridgewater, wrongful conviction | Leave a reply

I’ll Be Speaking on “Suosso’s Lane” in Norwell on Monday, Oct. 17

Posted on October 16, 2016 by BobknoxOctober 16, 2016

Do we learn from the past? Can we? Monday evening, Oct. 17, I’ll be speaking on “Suosso’s Lane” at The James Library and Center for the Arts, 24 West St., Norwell, Mass. The time is 7 p.m.; it’s free. With … Continue reading →

Posted in Suosso's Lane | Tagged Anarchists, criminal justice, Immigration, Italians, North Plymouth, Plymouth, Sacco and Vanzetti, Suosso's Lane, wrongful conviction | 2 Replies

Robert Knox and “Suosso’s Lane” at Milton Library on Oct. 16

Posted on September 26, 2016 by BobknoxSeptember 26, 2016

I will be bringing copies of “Suosso’s Lane” to the Milton Public Library on Sunday, Oct. 16, to take part in a new book program called “Fall Into Reading: Meet Local Authors.” The participating authors will have an opportunity to … Continue reading →

Posted in Suosso's Lane | Tagged Anarchists, criminal justice, Immigration, Italians, Milton Library, Plymouth, Sacco and Vanzetti, Suosso's Lane, wrongful conviction | Leave a reply

New Bookstore Hosts Sacco-Vanzetti Program

Posted on September 2, 2016 by BobknoxSeptember 2, 2016

Boston’s North End, an Italian-American neighborhood for a hundred years, was hopping on a Tuesday evening last week. The neighborhood’s new book store, I AM, hosted a program that included long-suppressed film footage of the Sacco-Vanzetti funeral march, a reading … Continue reading →

Posted in American History, Suosso's Lane | Tagged Anarchists, criminal justice, Immigration, Italian Exclusion Act, North Plymouth, Sacco and Vanzetti, Sacco and Vanzetti funeral, Sacco-Vanaetti funeral march, Suosso's Lane, The Red Scare, Vanzetti, wrongful conviction | Leave a reply

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Read my essay on the poetry of Mary Oliver, America’s favorite poet

People love Mary Oliver’s poetry because, commentators said, it’s “accessible.” But accessibility doesn’t mean that her poems lacked artistry. See my blog post “Why We Love Mary Oliver’s Poetry.”

My short story “The Shadow of the Family,” a fantasy on a family holiday gathering has been  published in the current issue of the online magazine “New Reader Magazine.” You can read the whole story in my blog on this site, robertcknox.com

My short seasonal memoir, “The Seven Days of Christmas” is published on Beneath the Rainbow. Here’s the link:  http://beneaththerainbow.com/the-seven-days-of-christmas/

My new poetry chapbook, “Cocktails in the Wild,” is out!My new poetry chapbook “Cocktails in the Wild,” published by Unsolicited Press, is available at http://www.unsolicitedpress.com/store/p139/robertknoxpoetry. Poems include “Cocktails on the Balcony,” “Voluptuous,” “The Perfect Candidate,” “The Paradise of Birds,” and others.

My first poetry book “Gardeners Do It With Their Hands Dirty” has been nominated for a Massachusetts Best Book Award, for best poetry book published in 2017.

My poems continue to appear on Verse-Virtual.com each month.  See my poems and photos at http://www.verse-virtual.com/robert-knox-2018-december.html

My essay on repealing the Second Amendment appears on Medium at https://medium.com/@bobknox/in-dysfunctional-countries-thousands-suffer-from-the-rule-of-ak-47-and-then-there-s-the-strange-623afae9f38a

Three of my poems were published recently by the Blue Nib at http://magazine.thebluenib.com/article/poetry-by-robert-knox-ash-slade/

My story on working at Riker’s Island — where I was “woked” to who goes to prison in America — is online at http://beneaththerainbow.com/behind-bars/

How do you manage to keep order and get down to real teaching when you’re a new substitute teacher and don’t know any of your students? To make matters worse, the regular teachers are on strike. My short story “Back to School” is up on the online journal “Beneath the Rainbow.” The site provided an attractive design for my story and generous bio space for me. http://beneaththerainbow.com/back-to-school/

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