Mother of Exiles,

Released in April 2026 for Poem in Your Pocket Day, in the 30th year of National Poetry Month. I realized I'd been carrying Emma Lazarus's “The New Colossus” in my pocket as news of killings and deportations by immigration agents spread. First it became an image: vector art of the statue's lamp melting a block of ice. Then a stencil and a patch on a battle jacket. Then a Celtic rock anthem, connecting my own historical roots and a modern vitality to the poem's old protopian vision.

Released in April 2026, for the 30th anniversary Poem in Your Pocket Day. I realized I'd been carrying Emma Lazarus's “The New Colossus” in my pocket since the January Killing of Renée Good. First it became an image: a hand-cut stencil of the statue's lamp melting a block of ice. Then a patch on a battle jacket. Then a celtic rock anthem song, tieing my own historical roots to an old protopian vision.

Not protest music, exactly. More like a reclamation: a reminder that the future we want already has blueprints.

• The poem came first. Everything else is a way of hearing a promise made in 1883 again, out loud.
• Each form fed the next: the stencil became the patch, and the patch became the song.
• The music was generated with Suno (an AI music tool) over many iterations, then mixed by hand in Reaper (audio editing software).