It's not Easy (to Work for Change)

Work for Change is a piece that emerged in response to Big Bridge editor Michael Rothenberg's organization of a global poetry performance event--scheduled for September 24, 2011--centered simply & elegantly upon the encouragement for a commitment to change in the practice of our daily lives as members of a shared & collective humanity-- perhaps as entities belonging to that collectivity of life & universe itself.

I found a number of discoveries were made possible by such a framing of commonality & mutual interests among the designation of what are for me at least three highly charged nouns: work, change, & poet. The commitment of 100,000 individuals to a project of personal growth & positive change impacting their actions w/in personal, social, political, & environmental systems constitutes no small achievement.

The deep, lasting significance, & value of this event lies not so much in the actions & performances restricted to September 24, 2011-- but rather in our commitment as poets to sustain this willingness to make such radical changes in our own practices continuously-- well beyond that date.

The pieces presented here on You Tube are home studio recording versions of three widely familiar & wildly popular songs: "Bein' Green" from the Jim Henson's Muppets, "Yellow Submarine' by the Beatles, & "The Red Flag" from the IWW's Little Red Songbook.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• green
• bein' green
• kermit
• global warming
• poets for change
• work for change
• transformation
• frog
• metamorphosis
• green party
• environmental change