Proposal For Securing Arts Funding In Western New York

Politically-engaged me grades my students' papers, keeps up with world events (sort of, anyway), transmits that information and my take on it around to whomever I can get to listen, votes, signs the occasional petition, shops as responsibly as I can, recycles, and so on. Not enough, maybe, but that's what I do. Politically-engaged me also trusts escapist-poet me that what we're doing in that role is valuable in some other way, or on some other time scale.