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He used to say,“It is not your dutyTo complete the work, But neither are you freeTo desist from it…” –Rabbi Tarfon, Pirke Avot, 2.21
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A Day of Duality in Brooklyn by Alex Gaynor
Waking up to harrowing news of subway shootings and terrorHappening on the most beautiful day of the year thus far An unsettled anxiety pacing the small room of my studio apartment Giving way to sunlit afternoon…
Ho-hum
William Carlos Williams/Selected Poems New Directions, 1968 See Also Reznikoff, Complete Poems; Thursday 26 May 2011 Someone please tell me the big deal about WCW, I’m halfway through this book and am not astounded, inspired,…
Continuation via Chris Wallach
From Thich Nhat Hanh– One autumn day, I was in a park, absorbed in the contemplation of a very small but beautiful leaf, in the shape of a heart. Its color was almost red, and…
Freeing Up Our Poetic Imaginations
The Ghost of Birds has many intriguing pieces; I want to focus simply on one. And on the riches of the last three paragraphs on the final two pages of his essay, “American Indias.” …
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Viva Tang Ten thousand and two texts A thousand and three tweets 644 Facebook status updates 87 cell phone messages save or delete Enough already! Take a deep breath Leave behind the technology And go…
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…
Recent Tweets by AOC
The cruise industry registers as foreign companies to avoid paying US taxes. Now they want US bailout money. Now the same Republicans who say immigrants who pay US taxes shouldn’t get help are bending over…
Notice What You Notice
At the Richmond Heights gym She resembled Kathy Kelly, hair-wise She walking on the treadmill Reading Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel, The Sympathizer
Three Working Epigraphs for Forthcoming Book
Everybody too intransigent. Everybody too mean. —Allen Ginsberg Appreciation is the sacrament. —Allen Ginsberg You have to write your own history, nobody’s going to do it for you. —Allen Ginsberg