Sending a Poem and Its Translation to a Friend
This is by Nicanor Parra. Sound familiar? Parra. As in Violeta Parra (Nicanor’s sister). As in Gracias a la Vida. As in her own recording of same (YouTube hers, not Mercedes’s) As in try and…
Month: May 2020
Playing Ophelia Helped Lindsey Navigate Her Own Grief
My comrade and teacher Lindsey Trout Hughes was published yesterday in Catapult … incredible writing, with more to come…
Treat Yourself
Read Virginia Woolf on Montaigne.
Share the Wealth with Matthew Miller: Rumi, Sufi Path of Love, and the Politics of “Mysticism”
Matthew Miller will lead us in a wide ranging discussion about Persian Sufi poetry. He will touch on the problems with many popular translations of Rumi and explore the “Sufi path of love” by introducing us to…
Countering Chaos
Alexander Cockburn, A Colossal Wreck: A Road Trip through Political Scandal, Corruption, and American Culture Verso, 2013 Daisy Cockburn: When I was a teenager my father used to suggest I read the dictionary when I…
Share the Wealth with Sari Althubyani: Ramadan Kareem
Sari will share with us his various experiences of Ramadan, from his homeland in Saudi Arabia to United States in these last few years. Bring your questions or share your own experience of this time…
Active Participants in a Democratic Society or Effective Corporate Employees?
Alfie Kohn, What Does It Mean to be Well Educated? And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies You only learn things and learn how to think if there’s some purpose for learning, some…
Share the Wealth with Jack McAtee: In But Not of The World
During this discussion we will try to make sense of these wild, strange, sad, wonderful, and terrifying times that we currently have the opportunity to live through. I’ll take a critical view on the current…
A Gift from Rob in Minnesota
Today I received a book, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI, from Rob Trousdale, who’s a part of the Catholic Worker community in Minnesota. (Some of Rob’s poems grace this blog.)…
Putting Marginalia to Use
for Danielle Mackey Eduardo Galeano, The Book of Embraces 31 Saturday October 2009 I reread this book for one reason: To see if it could help me generate some ideas as to form and content…