Category: Friends

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…

It Was Love at First Haiku

Maria told me to contact you When you were fresh back from El Salvador And perhaps needing another shoulder to lean on After re-entering this meshugah militarized greed culture There we sat at a table…

A Declaration by Fatima

My friend Fatima Rhodes shared this with me, and I am happy to share it here.   America, I have been talking to you a lot lately. This one is for you. I will register…