Called “another classic New Jersey bard” by the late Allen Ginsberg, Eliot Katz is the author of seven books of poetry, including Love, War, Fire, Wind and Unlocking the Exits, as well as a prose book, The Poetry and Politics of Allen Ginsberg. His most recent poetry book was a free pdf volume posted on his website before the 2020 U.S. presidential election, entitled: President Predator: Poems to Help Make America Trump-Free Again. He was a co-founder, with Danny Shot, of the long-running Long Shot literary magazine, and was a co-editor with Allen Ginsberg and Andy Clausen of Poems for the Nation. In the mid-1990s, he coedited an anthology of U.S. protest poetry, Changing America, that was published as a bilingual anthology in France. Katz, whose late mother was a Holocaust survivor, has worked for many years as an activist for a wide range of peace and social-justice causes, including helping to create several housing and food programs for homeless families in Central New Jersey that remain ongoing.
Imagine Again
Imagine
a de-militarized
Middle
East
and
then
imagine
a completely
de-militarized
world.
It’s not
so
easy
these
days,
but
please
try.
Samhlaigh Arís
Samhlaigh
an Meánoirthear
dímhíleataithe
agus
samhlaigh
ansin
domhan
atá
dímhíleataithe
ar fad
ar fad.
Níl sé
éasca
na
laethanta
seo,
ach
déan
iarracht
le
do
thoil.