4400 Chouteau Avenue
Walking west on Chouteau
Category: Uncategorized
Wednesday 23 September 2015
Forest Park
4500 block of Chouteau Avenue
photo by Andrew Wimmer, Sunday 8 April 2012
The Bonds of Smoking (Checkpoint/1 [Life under Occupation/2])
“I had my peaceful priorities Healthy habits I tried cultivating nerves of steel Or so I thought My Buddhist practice Gives me techniques for dealing with stress Like repeating one of the classic mantras or…
For Ale Vázquez
El Derecho de Vivir en Paz by Victor Jara
Epistolary Ecstasy/2
A dear friend copied and pasted All our Facebook messages to each other Into a Word document Going back to 2008 It comes to 102 pages
The One Contains the All
There are pictures that stay in the memory as if carved with a fine chisel. Of the thousands of demolished homes I remember one house in Silwad. Of the hundreds of torture victims I see…
Checkpoint/3 (Life under Occupation/5)
The following is adapted from IDF soldier, Liran Ron Furer, Checkpoint Syndrome I ran toward them and punched an Arab right in the face I’d never punched anyone that way He collapsed on the road…
Dear Mark
Dear Mark, Here is my reflection of Dear Layla, I thought at first that I should apologize for the scatter-brained style of writing I’m sure this letter will take. Then I thought, he probably doesn’t…
Hanan al-Shaykh’s “The Story of Zahra” (Arab Writers in Translation Reading Circle)
Friends, Our novel this month is by Lebanese writer, Hanan al-Shaykh, The Story of Zahra. Hala Abdelaziz will facilitate our discussion. We meet on Wednesday 27 June from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Center for…