For this week’s Share the Wealth, I invite you to learn from my friend Jason Makansi this Thursday! Left Bank Books welcomes author and independent consultant Jason Makansi, who will sign and discuss his new…
I met the Buddha on the road And little said she and I “The Diamond Sutra is matchless Reading it makes me cry” “You just reminded me of Mary Oliver Her percipience makes me cry”
From time to time I’ve learned how some readers of The Book of Mev recognize themselves in Mev Puleo’s words, say, from her letters and journals. They remind of the French novelist Marcel Proust, who…
So many of us inter-are with Doctors Neil Munjal and Neeta Shenai!
I was delighted to read this review from the Post-Dispatch about my former Maryville student Thao Truong and her husband Yun Vu’s restaurant, VietNam Style. I’m hoping to bring my Thich Nhat Hanh class soon…
I received an email from New Directions today and found a link to this The Washington Post profile of Ferlinghetti, McClure, di Prima, Gold, and Snyder. Enjoy!
Marcel Proust, Selected Letters, volume 4: 1918-1922Edited by Philip Kolb, translated and with an introduction for Joanna Kilmartin Months ago, I read volume 4 of Proust’s selected letters translated into English. As the Buddhists highlight…
Unlike critics and “language” poets, I have no agenda at all: I read books. –Eliot Weinberger, Written Reaction: Poetics, Politics, Polemics
Samuel Beckett’s novel, Murphy, sold exactly six copies in its first year of publication. adapted, Eliot Weinberger, Written Reaction
Photography is another way to view the world around us as well as using our eyes. While photography has many uses, numerous people popularly use it as an artistic medium to capture moments, emotions, and…