The Kentish Rebellion

Dan O’Brien is the author of A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, and Other Traumas (Dalkey Archive Press and CB Editions) and Our Cancers: A Chronicle in Poems (Acre Books), both released in 2021. He lives in Los Angeles.

Dan O’Brien

The Drama of History, in Poems: On Robert Selby’s “The Kentish Rebellion”

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Dan O’Brien is the author of A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, and Other Traumas (Dalkey Archive Press and CB Editions) and Our Cancers: A Chronicle in Poems (Acre Books), both released in 2021. He lives in Los Angeles.