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Len Shindel
Len Shindel

Len Shindel began working at Bethlehem Steel’s Sparrows Point Plant in 1973, where he was a union activist and elected representative in local unions of the United Steelworkers, frequently publishing newsletters about issues confronting his co-workers. His nonfiction and poetry have been published in the “Other Voices” section of the Baltimore Evening Sun, The Pearl, The Mill Hunk Herald, Pig Iron, Labor Notes and other publications. After leaving Sparrows Point in 2002, Shindel, a father of three and grandfather of seven, began working as a communication specialist for an international union based in Washington, D.C. The International Labor Communications Association frequently rewarded his writing. He retired in 2016. Today he enjoys writing, cross-country skiing, kayaking, hiking, fly-fishing, and fighting for a more peaceful, sustainable and safe world for his grandchildren and their generation. Shindel is currently working on a book about the Garrett County Roads Workers Strike of 1970 www.garrettroadstrike.com.

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Poetry 

Before

September 17, 2024 Len Shindel

Before our opinions, you were as confident and brash as I was tentative and timid.

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Poetry 

Rock

September 16, 2024 Len Shindel

As the coal train screeches by,

I think of the dust

from which they died,

their oxygen tanks

only a palliative,

their suffocation

normal and expected,

the inherent risk of a

transitory prosperity.

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Blogs 

Lincoln’s Melting Head and Artist Sandy Williams IV

August 29, 2024August 29, 2024 Len Shindel

I was about 12 when my parents took my younger brother and me on a family vacation from our home in West Hartford, Conn. to Washington, D.C. I remember our meals in the now-defunct Hot Shoppes and spending our nights in a motel on busy New York Avenue.

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Commentary 

AN OPEN LETTER: To Our Talented, Soulful, Progressive Celebrities

July 3, 2024July 3, 2024 Len Shindel

We Are the World. The Concert for Bangladesh. Farm Aid, “Ain’t Gonna Play Sun City,” the creative community supporting victims of Hurricane Katrina etc. etc….. So many artists have come together in the far and recent past to alleviate suffering and speak out at times of crisis and pain.

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Len Shindel Poetry 

Brown

November 17, 2023 Len Shindel

Leafless, grey, gnarled, they hibernate in the clays of the brown crag.   Their red, yellow, orange gildings, two months

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Len Shindel Poetry 

Transitions

November 7, 2023 Len Shindel

My kitchen is blessed with fruity scents of Ethiopian Oromia, the welcoming traces of Chinatown Coffee Company, that quick but

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Len Shindel Poetry 

Small Town

November 3, 2023 Len Shindel

So you think our small town’s

so damn pretty

while you get on your soapbox

‘bout crime in the city.

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Len Shindel Poetry 

Words

October 19, 2023 Len Shindel

U.S. troops liberated death camps

in the decade before my birth.

My parents didn’t use the word fascism.

But I knew what it meant.

Only two years before my birth,

Israel was declared a state.

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Books Reviews 

Book Review: Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire an anthology of Palestinian writers and artists  

January 5, 2023 Len Shindel

Maybe it was Refaat Alareer’s memory of being on a Gaza playground in elementary school. Alareer, now a professor of

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Len Shindel Poetry 

Muskrat Meditation

June 15, 2022 Len Shindel

Sunday morning, damp bench, Deep Creek Lake State Park.   Pandemic pup sits beside me, panting after her free run,

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