Jul 6, 2026 · 1 hr · 14 segments
Flags Sprouting Everywhere. Join Hannah Tool and Farnaz Fatemi as we read poems which unpack iconic American language and make room for more of us in the current cultural landscape. Poems by: Jean…
Farnaz FatemiHost
Hannah ToolHost
And it's one of a series of golden shovel poems that the 2024 Poet Laureate cohort of the Academy of the American Poets wrote last year.
And they're all golden shovels who take lines from the Declaration of Independence.
It's hard to say it's my flag because for years, whenever I've seen one as a truck decal in the neighbor's yard, on any shirts, hats, welcome mats, beer cans, or other ostentatious form.
But today, in an uncomfortably deliberate anti-government act, I put one in a cart, pay for it, assemble it, and hope it becomes civil disobedience, a chance for patriotism to no longer be destructive.
I protest in my city soldiers March for Trump's parade 1000 miles east of here 1800 miles West Angelenos fight tear gas from these same armed forces we like them are wondering when it ends who gets to decide in Minnesota our speaker of the house is dead, it was only hours ago that a man dressed as a policeman shot her.
In front of us, a bearded man with a flag on the back of his scooter circles and plays Americana.
Is he flying old glory or deceptive glory? A flag of the people or a false reclamation.
We wish he'd wipe out a lesson to alter his thinking about the road rash of America.
And it's one of a series of golden shovel poems that the 2024 Poet Laureate cohort of the Academy of the American Poets wrote last year.
And they're all golden shovels who take lines from the Declaration of Independence.
It's hard to say it's my flag because for years, whenever I've seen one as a truck decal in the neighbor's yard, on any shirts, hats, welcome mats, beer cans, or other ostentatious form.
But today, in an uncomfortably deliberate anti-government act, I put one in a cart, pay for it, assemble it, and hope it becomes civil disobedience, a chance for patriotism to no longer be destructive.
I protest in my city soldiers March for Trump's parade 1000 miles east of here 1800 miles West Angelenos fight tear gas from these same armed forces we like them are wondering when it ends who gets to decide in Minnesota our speaker of the house is dead, it was only hours ago that a man dressed as a policeman shot her.
In front of us, a bearded man with a flag on the back of his scooter circles and plays Americana.
Is he flying old glory or deceptive glory? A flag of the people or a false reclamation.
We wish he'd wipe out a lesson to alter his thinking about the road rash of America.
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