Libraries
A big library really has the gift of tongues and vast potencies of telepathic communication. Northrop Frye
Category: Friends
Sempre Avanti
Sempre avanti, Italian. “Always keep moving forward.” I first learned this expression from Helena, a friend who typically signed off her letters with this expression, or else with Coraggio. A historian and a convert to…
Share the Wealth with Thuy Khuu on Wednesday 28 December 2016
Have you noticed that toilet paper only comes in circular rolls? Has it occurred to you that it can be in other shapes, square for instance? What would happen then? Every day, we interact with…
Share the Wealth with Thuy Khuu on Wednesday 28 December 2016
Have you noticed that toilet paper only comes in circular rolls? Has it occurred to you that it can be in other shapes, square for instance? What would happen then? Every day, we interact with…
Can’t Wait for the USPS by Rob Trousdale (The Joy is Reciprocal)
A Response to a Letter from 4514 Chouteau Avenue How many times can one read the same 4 sentences? 14 and counting, I guess Your lines on Chomsky’s fire for linguistics Him, just diggin’ it…
From a Brand New Notebook by Katie Consamus
The magnificent Katie Consamus sent me this a while back, and I am happy to share it here. January 12, 2011 at 10:43pm From page one of a brand new notebook. Written first with a…
Facebook Wall Post from Chris Hesh, 11.20.2008
I saw a composition notebook and The Book of Mev with a college student attached yesterday night at the Gelateria. Mark ‘Omnipresent’ Chmiel
Writing Practice in Haiti, 2010
Occasionally, Sara Rendell asks me for some writing topics for her to take off on. Thus, the following email… Tuesday 3 August 2010 Dear Sara, Try these! Looking at the moon at night in Haiti…
A Poem by Yael Diplacido-Eastman
A week after your death I’m on my hot pink bike Seeing every wooly caterpillar On its way across my path The trees above are leaning forward Lamenting with a dance of Falling leaves Their…
Photo Meditation/112
I’ve been reading volume four of Proust’s Selected Letters, translated into English by Joanna Kilmartin. I liked this passage from a letter to a Madame Greffulje– “When you refused me once before, you gave me…