Share the Wealth with Jessie and Savannah
Jessie Sarber and Savannah Sisk are moving to Minneapolis at the very end of July for a new adventure. Jessie will be starting a PhD in Culture and Teaching at the University of Minnesota, and…
Looking Deeply at Laos/1
Please take a look at this video by Legacies of War. It will require 2 minutes and 40 seconds of your time. Next, consider, Thich Nhat Hanh’s 4th precept of the Tiep Hien Order: Do…
To Have Been Exiled by Exiles
I was rereading Edward Said’s Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, which is a great collection of essays on literature and culture with exploration of the experiences of dislocation, exile, migration, and empire as well…
Share the Wealth with Carmen Stevens: My Journey through Irish Culture
I will talk about the different things I learned during my time at Saint Louis Irish Arts. Preforming, dancing, reciting, and many more ways in which I learned to share Ireland with St. Louis. Irish…
The River Boat Captain, He Knows My Fate
My mother was chagrined when I went from listening to the Beatles at age 13 to Bob Dylan at 14. “At least the Beatles can sing; how can your ears stand that?” Neither she nor…
A Radical Presence Constantly Goading Us (Ferlinghetti’s Greatest Poems)
Owner of the San Francisco institution, City Lights Bookstore; publisher of the Pocket Poets series, including HOWL, which brought an obscenity suit to City Lights and global fame to Allen Ginsberg; poet of A Coney…
A Radical Presence Constantly Goading Us (Ferlinghetti’s Greatest Poems)
Owner of the San Francisco institution, City Lights Bookstore; publisher of the Pocket Poets series, including HOWL, which brought an obscenity suit to City Lights and global fame to Allen Ginsberg; poet of A Coney…
Bella Levenshteyn Gives Me an Opportunity to Practice
“I’ll be filling two backpacks, and then I’m headed to Warsaw” My heart sinks Three deep breaths in and out My heart expands
Share the Wealth with Dianne Lee: A Sanctuary
“I associate the garden with the whole experience of being alive, and so, there is nothing in the range of human experience that is separate from what the garden can signify in its eagerness and…
“My Library Is What Is in My Head”
Leland Poague, ed.Conversations with Susan Sontag University Press of Mississippi, 1995 Sometimes I feel that, in the end, all I am really defending—but then I say all is everything—is the idea of seriousness, of true…