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About Me

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i teach middle school in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, NY, which is to say i'm a student. Each day my students, friends, colleagues (b/c not all colleagues are friends or even friendly) and family teach me more about this world than any/all schooling ever did.i love the concept of justice, i just wish i could see that concept played out for real.Pinochet escaping prosecution b/c of "mental instability" is not justice. What Israel does daily to my friends and surrogate family in Palestine is not justice. Prisons taking years from sons/daughters/mothers/fathers is not justice.Everyday i try, fail and try again to treat the people around me justly.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

George W. Bush. On Bushwick Avenue. Alone.

Heroes:

Hurriyah Ziadeh (www.myspace.com/hurriyah). My mom. June Jordan. Robert Fisk. George Orwell.

My Blog

Poem of the Week: "Yom Kippur 1984" by Adrienne Rich

Yom Kippur 1984I drew solitude over me, on the long shore. --Robinson Jeffers, "Prelude"For whatever does not afflict his soul throughoutthis day, shall be cut off from his peo...
Posted by trevor says: FREE PALESTINE on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 04:15:00 PST

Poem: "Memory on 9.11" by trevor baumgartner

Memory on 9.11--by trevor baumgartnerMy step father soldiered for the US Navy. He sailed in the Gulf to guard us from Iran. I remember the dayheforced Ivorysoap into my throatb/c I opened the...
Posted by trevor says: FREE PALESTINE on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:14:00 PST

Poem of the Week: "I Begin By Invoking Walt Whitman" by Pablo Neruda

I Begin By Invoking Walt Whitman--by Pablo NerudaBecause I love my countryI claim you, essential brother,old Walt Whitman with your gray hands,so that, with your special helpline by line, we will tear...
Posted by trevor says: FREE PALESTINE on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:40:00 PST

Poem of the Week: "Moving Towards Home" by June Jordan

Moving Towards HomeBy June Jordan"Where is Abu Fadi," she wailed."Who will bring me my loved one?"The New York Times, 9/20/82I do not wish to speak about the bulldozer and the red dirtnot quite coveri...
Posted by trevor says: FREE PALESTINE on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 02:28:00 PST

Poem of the Week: "The Earth is a Satellite of the Moon" by Leonel Rugama

THE EARTH IS A SATELLITE OF THE MOONApollo 2 cost more than Apollo 1Apollo 1 cost plenty.Apollo 3 cost more than Apollo 2Apollo 2 cost more than Apollo 1Apollo 1 cost plenty.Apollo 4 cost more than Ap...
Posted by trevor says: FREE PALESTINE on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 08:28:00 PST

Our New Independence

Our New Independenceby trevor baumgartnerit is essential that we finally understand:this is the time for the creativehuman being --Sonia Sanchez, "Poem for July 4, 1994And what to ma...
Posted by trevor says: FREE PALESTINE on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:27:00 PST

Poem of the Week: "Poem for July 4, 1994" by Sonia Sanchez

Poem for July 4, 1994(For President Vaclav Havel)1.It is essential that Summer be grafted tobones marrow earth clouds blood theeyes of our ancestors.It is essential to smell the beginningwords where W...
Posted by trevor says: FREE PALESTINE on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:16:00 PST

Poem of the Week: "An Anthem" by Sonia Sanchez

An Anthem(for the ANC and Brandywine Peace Community)Our vision is our voicewe cut through the countrywhere madmen goosestep in tune to Guernica.we are people made of firewe walk with ceremonial breat...
Posted by trevor says: FREE PALESTINE on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:48:00 PST

"Palestine neither yours nor mine" by trevor baumgartner

i staredown the gunbarrel the soldierstare down the sunthe stone swooshing through the stolen skysteel cellshackles score my ankles& i'm too weakto walk awayanywaythe barbed wire reaches aro...
Posted by trevor says: FREE PALESTINE on Mon, 08 May 2006 06:08:00 PST