So You Want To Be a Writer by Charles Bukowski
if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it….
A Writing and Reading Course with “Dear Layla”
In this winter/spring course, we will read (or reread) and write on themes from my recent book, Dear Layla Welcome to Palestine. Precedent for this method: last spring we used themes from The Book of…
Dear 1L
You’re sitting in Civ Pro— Looking like you’re paying attention Masking skillfully Your ho-hum ennui Let me remind you— In your deep heart’s core You can always visit Innisfree Or even chat with Crazy Jane
Share the Wealth with Julia Brucks: “The Fierce Urgency of Now” – My Journey with St Louis
“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being…
This Makes Me Think of Kathy Kelly
The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live everyday, that we form by being together. There are…
Yoshida Kenkō, Tsurezuregusa
for Caroline Going on a journey, whatever the destination, makes you feel suddenly awake and alive to everything. There are so many new things to see in rustic places and country villages as you wander…
The Way It Looked in 1996
The main intellectual task is to confront the Israeli conscience with the serious human and political claims of the Palestinians: these require moral, intellectual, cultural attention of the most profound kind, and cannot easily be…
The Way It Looked in 1986
The United States was deeply committed to the French effort to reconquer their former colony, recognizing throughout that the enemy was the nationalist movement of Vietnam. The death toll was about half a million. When…
An Observation
There is no conversion of those who live in scandalous wealth to the welfare of those who live in scandalous misery. –Jon Sobrino Quotation from Apostle of Peace: Essays in Honor of Daniel Berrigan Photos by Mev…
Remembering Mev in San Antonio
Hi, Mark! Hope that this new year is one full of blessings for you. You’ve probably already received lots of copies of the article on Mev but decided to send it just in case. This…