Accompaniment/5 (Letter/6)
from Part Three, The Book of Mev Monday 5 February 1996 Dear Angie, And so. Three weeks ago, we buried Mev. So we did. So she is gone. Vanished. Not palpable. Or at least, most of…
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
Sunday Share the Wealth with Melissa–Coming Back to Life: Healing through Self-Care, Presence, and Service
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ~Howard Thurman Melissa will…
Feedback, August 2007
…I also mentioned to you something about accessibility: I said that when I read your more final version of The Book of Mev, I was surprised by how accessible the voice was. Yes, it did…
Dr. Mengele’s Granddaughter by Hedy Epstein
In one of my talks, in the Droste Huelshof Gymnasium in Freiburg, I spoke about my own Holocaust-related experience, as well as about my work as a research analyst at the Nuremberg trial of the…
This Is the Truth
Dear _______________ When you are having a tough time living in ____________– Bluesy weary wondering “What the fuck was I thinking?” Accusing yourself of selling out– Take a minute or five And think of all…
For Laura Lapinski
Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, “Poem Written on a Book of Mathew Brady Photographs” Perhaps there’s something waiting in the moonlight to show its face I’m writing on an oversized book of Mathew Brady photographs pictures of…
Valentine Card, 1993
Dearest partner, travel mate, sister quester, blessed one, sage-in-the-making, charmer, visionary, soul-sharer, teacher, palsy-walsy chum, chef extraordinaire, Florence Nightingale, Penny Lernoux, four years old, perennial 20 year old, tough as nails, soft as silk, cherished…
From the Archives: Hello from Camden!
Hey Dr. Chmiel! Hope the new school year is treating you well! I thought of you the other day because I was perusing my bookcase (which, by the way, I’m doing JVC in Camden, NJ…
Forty Years of Letters
Bill Morgan, I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career: The Selected Correspondence of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg —1955-1997 I read a lot of Ferlinghetti in the 1980s, and loads of Ginsberg…