"Executive Order" by James Penha
FEBRUARY 2025
Executive Order
illegal
me
separated
arrested
deported
me
because
power
declared
me
illegal
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1/24/2025
At universities and in secondary schools, in the United States and in Asia, in administration and in the classroom, James Penha has had a fifty-year career as an educator whose enthusiasm for learning and language inspires students and colleagues. His papers on teaching have been widely presented. A New Yorker living in Indonesia, Penha has published hundreds of poems, stories, and articles throughout these same five decades, and presently he also edits The New Verse News, a website for current-events poetry.
