Political Poetry

About the Book

It’s been a disturbing political season. For almost a year and a half, candidates battled it out with vicious accusations, hellish hyperbole, and not much substance. Here’s a look back at the campaigns in an anthology of daily verses written during the horrific political season. How many of these campaign events do you remember? This collection of political poems was written on a day-by-day basis from August 2015 all the way up to November 2016. And now the collection continues as we all sit back and watch the political pandemonium continue for four more years!

About the Author

From modest roots in Fort Wayne, Indiana, I have enjoyed a lifelong career in advertising, publishing, commercial printing, and marketing. While living in the Washington, DC area in the early 1980s (and being involved in the start-up of USA Today), I took a broader interest in our national political system and how it works (or fails to work, depending on your observation). I returned to Indiana in 1991 and bought a small local community newspaper. Since the political season began in August 2015, I began writing these daily poetic satires about our political process. I humbly submit this first compilation of poems, written as the primaries began and continuing right up until the election. I hope you enjoy my tongue-in-cheek utterances as much as I’ve enjoyed writing them. And I look forward to sharing more political poetry by RKO with you as our nation welcomes a new administration into the Oval Office (whoever it may be!). Enjoy—and please share this political neophyte’s views with your friends and neighbors. Who knows what kind of deliberations it might incite over an ice-cold beer, a smooth red wine, or a raucous rum and cola! Cheers!