Saturday, August 1, 2009

Brooklyn's Coming - An Open Letter to Sarah Palin

You know I can't resist a great Sarah Palin jab:-) Check out this poem by Jeananne Verlee. I've also included a bit of her bio from her myspace page below.

Enjoy!




JEANANN VERLEE is a poet, prose writer, actor, activist, and former punk rocker who collects tattoos and winks at boys. Her work has appeared in various journals, magazines and anthologies, including The New York Quarterly, Spindle, "His Rib" and others. Member of the 2008 louderARTS National Poetry Slam team, ranked 2nd in the nation at the 2008 National Poetry Slam, Jeanann also proudly serves as Co-SlamMaster for New York City’s Urbana Poetry Slam at Bowery Poetry Club. She was member of Urbana’s 2006 team, coach for the 2007 team and in 2008, qualified for two New York City National Poetry Slam teams. Jeanann shares an apartment with her best pal, Callisto, an 11 year old Border Collie-mix and can be found hugging a barstool in an Irish pub on the Lower East Side. She believes in you.

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