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Larry Wolf, Louisville Poems Chapbook (2025) |
Louisville Poems, 1994 - 1996, originally posted to thepoint.net, now on this blog and a 1-of-1 chapbook.
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Larry Wolf, Louisville Poems Chapbook (2025) |
Louisville Poems, 1994 - 1996, originally posted to thepoint.net, now on this blog and a 1-of-1 chapbook.
FAGGOT
ON YOUR KNEES
your head
your head
barbs tear your shirt and skin
Rough
Ragged
Irregular
Your spasms pulse through me
Still
Limp
Seeping blood
No help
No warmth
Is that a scarecrow?
Police
Ambulance
flesh
blood
River of mourners
Flood of mourners
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Larry Wolf, Held (Zine Photo 2025/Fence Photo 2010) |
Tear Streaked Cheeks
On a fence outside Laramie, Wyoming, a man was beaten and left to die on a cold October night, 1998. Matthew Shepard became the poster child of gay hate crimes. There were candlelight vigils – organized all too quickly and too well. We should not be so good at this public mourning and outcry. Enough is enough.
The trial. The protestors chanting hell for the homosexual. The angelic counter-protests. His parents. Their compassion. Their determination. The plays, art, chorale works and politics that followed.
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act became law in 2009. Two brutal deaths in 1998, one homophobic, one racist. A decade. Another decade. Much still to do.
Jeff Sheng's MFA Thesis Exhibition included a large forty foot wide by six foot high digitally constructed panoramic photographic installation, titled "Where Matthew Lay Dying: Laramie, Wyoming," originally shot and taken from the spot and vantage point where the hate crime/murder victim Matthew Shepard was found on a fence post outside Laramie, Wyoming.
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Larry Wolf, etc - Rockport Maine (2025) |
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Larry Wolf, Rugosa - Rockport Maine (2025) |
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Larry Wolf, Rugosa - Rockport Maine (2025) |
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Larry Wolf, Rugosa - Rockport Maine (2025) |
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Larry Wolf, Tree with House - Rockport Maine (2025) |
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Larry Wolf, Tree with Lichen - Rockport Maine (2025) |
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Larry Wolf, Seeds - Rockport Maine (2025) |
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Larry Wolf, Hemingway - Rockport Harbor (2025) |
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Larry Wolf, Self-Portrait - Rockport Harbor (2025) |
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Larry Wolf, Working Lobster Boat - Rockport Harbor (2025) |
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Larry Wolf, Rockport Harbor (2025) |
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Larry Wolf, Boat Launch Approach - Rockport Harbor (2025) |
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Larry Wolf, Zip Tied Infrastructure - Rockport Harbor (2025) |
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Larry Wolf, Shadow and Stairs - Rockport Harbor (2025) |
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Larry Wolf, Lime Kiln - Rockport Harbor (2025) |
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Larry Wolf, Lime Kiln - Rockport Harbor (2025) |
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Larry Wolf - Rockport Harbor (2025) |
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Larry Wolf, Thorny Beauty (2025) |
North Atlantic
vast Canada
Brooklyn
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Unknown Photographer, My Great Grandparents and their Children (1917?) |