Playwright, clown, musician, and mensch Colin McLaughlin has invited friends over this evening to do a collective reading of his new play, Jailbird, about Eugene Debs. Colin asked me to read Debs’ famous statement to…
Playwright, clown, musician, and mensch Colin McLaughlin has invited friends over this evening to do a collective reading of his new play, Jailbird, about Eugene Debs. Colin asked me to read Debs’ famous statement to…
Jean Abbott* is like Kwan Yin, a bodhisattva who hears the cries of the world and through such listening knows what to do, or knows sometimes that there’s nothing to do except the being present…
Since this past September, Cami Kasmerchak and I have been visiting monthly, taking turns to come up with an agenda to explore topics and themes of mutual interest, such as photography, politics, poetry, traveling, teachers,…
Jim Zwerg left Madison Wisconsin To be part of an intensive seminar In American satyagraha In Southern viciousness In the ways power twists the human soul In the ways the human soul resists power He…
Breathing in, I recognize my flawed humanity Breathing out, I smile –shared with me by Ale V.
I don’t aspire to the New York Times op-ed page Or The New Yorker I’d be pleased if Eileen Mosher “likes” One of the free verse mind flows I write to and for her My…
I don’t aspire to the New York Times op-ed page Or The New Yorker I’d be pleased if Eileen Mosher “likes” One of the free verse mind flows I write to and for her My…
“When the artist is alive in any person, whatever her kind of work may be, she becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. She becomes interesting to other people. She disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens…
I read Reznikoff in summer of 2010 As much as I could find Used, at Amazon By him, about him I like his spare style That was the year I was generating a piece a…