Stewart Acuff

May 22

We choke our Earth at our peril

Now will the science deniers Deny the power of nature With the mile wide tornado That destroyed huge chunks Of Oklahoma And killed children in school and Folks in their homes and workplaces How many unbelievable weather disasters Will it take for

May 9

Unemployment

7-ish percent officially 15-20 percent really On the street and underpasses and fading It wakes you up with a stormy stomach Roiling all your insides Before it even gets to your mind And then the mind goes wild I got nothin’,

May 1
Acuff on Thom Hartmann’s #MayDay2013 Show!Play

Acuff on Thom Hartmann’s #MayDay2013 Show!

Yesterday was May Day and Thom Hartmann built his show on RT TV around the global worker’s and union’s celebration that is May Day. His longest panel was AFL-CIO economist Bill Spriggs, Working America’s

Apr 29

PBTYA is #1!

I’m so excited right now! My book, Playing Bigger Than You Are: A Life in Organizing became #1 last week in the Labor & Industrial Relations category of the Kindle store! That is simply amazing

Apr 25
VIDEO: Acuff at UC Berkeley Labor CenterPlay

VIDEO: Acuff at UC Berkeley Labor Center

Apr 24

Harmonize with God’s beauty in us.

I worry That your worry now in this difficlt time Blinds you to the beauty God gave us and put all around us It is springtime The best time to be alive The dogwoods, pear trees and The iconic cherry blossoms Call

Apr 23

Two Upcoming Book & Poetry Readings in DC!

I am so excited that I have two book and poetry readings and signings coming up in Washington, DC and in Silver Spring. Both venues are iconic places for art and literature and progressive politics. Please

Apr 16

Mississippi Woman

Thinking of home as I think of you Remembering those “long” trips into Arkansas when we were just Sposed to be ridin’ around in Malden on 22 cents a gallon gas All those small town adventures and Pretty girls who

Apr 16

Home

We talked across the table About the Mississippi River and its Delta And barbecue and what we’ve done with Our lives so long and so far from That Mississippi and the lands that Drained its rain runoff into it And

Apr 16

Soft Spring Rain

Waking here in this gentle place Made even more gentle by soft rain, Soft spring rain that slows everything Everything except the busy mockingbirds Their songs beautiful in the rain but Oh so serious to them as they claim Their

Creative Commons License
These works within this section are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License

UA-30714318-1