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Mike Maggio was born in New York City and
graduated from Queens College with a Bachelors in Creative Writing and
American Literature. He studied cinema at the University of Southern
California, where he later achieved a Masters in Applied Linguistics. He is
the recipient of a grant from the Puffin Foundation and is currently
completing his MFA at George Mason University. Mike now lives in Virginia
with his wife and two children.
, For a Living, and DC
Poets Against the War. Mike has authored Oranges from Palestine,
A Sort of Santa Claus, Sifting Through the Madness, and his newest
anthology, deMOCKracy.
Mike has his own site also. He
welcomes e-mail - MikeMaggio at aol dot com. We're happy Mike has joined us
here. You can browse through and read entries from Mike's complete historical blog archives
here.By Mike Maggio on September 22, 2007
This week the Washington Post printed a letter of mine which responded to an article on Representative Jim Moran (Democratic-VA-08) and his supposedly anti-semitic comments. Here is the letter in its entirety.
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By Mike Maggio on April 28, 2007
Once, I dreamed of sunshine. There was a big, bright ball of yellow swelling in the sky, and there was I, illuminated in the light, like a saint crowned in halo, ready to perform the most testing of miracles. That's the way I viewed my life when I was a budding youth: nothing was too big or too difficult to be accomplished. I knew that, one day, I would use my skills and talents to help change the world, make it a better place for all.
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By Mike Maggio on March 19, 2007
One of the greatest mistakes made by the left during the Vietnam War was the way we treated the soldiers as they returned from the conflict. Instead of embracing them and recognizing them for what they were - collateral victims of a war many did not support and were forced to fight - we rejected them outright as if they were responsible for what had gone on.
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