The Lesson of a Tree by Walt Whitman

for Ale Vazquez Sept. 1.—I should not take either the biggest or the most picturesque tree to illustrate it. Here is one of my favorites now before me, a fine yellow poplar, quite straight, perhaps…

Aspiration

20 years old She was in the Adult Learning Academy To brush up on reading, writing, and math skills I offered feedback and encouragement on her writing After graduating from the ALA She wanted to…

For K. L.

After his own New York show in 1988, his work dried up. He moved many times and every time he moved he dumped what little work he had produced. But he didn’t stop thinking of…

How One Person Saw Hồ Chí Minh

In Hồ Chí Minh, everybody finds the noblest, most simple, and dearest member of his family… Compared with weapons, that does not yield to all the weapons of the Seventh Fleet… Hồ Chí Minh’s image…

Guest Speaker

You came to class to tell your story As you surely had done many times elsewhere How you became a serious Muslim While at a West Coast Jesuit university I’d heard many stories about you From…

Be in Love with Yr Life

“Neighbors, friends, colleagues, students, fellow poets, and artists all came to her home where they were greeted with exuberance, shared in her bursts of full-bodied laughter, and were sent off with her signature Buddhist bow….

Support a Gaza Cancer Center

It’s an honor to know Dr. Zeina Kiblawi; please consider making a contribution to this project. She writes: “Hi everyone! On April 1st, I’m running in the Palestine “Right to Movement” Marathon (I’ll be doing the 10K!!)…

Reading and Writing Inter-Are

What you have to do, I believe, is to believe that there is a reader, a listener, a needer, within yourself, who corresponds closely to those readers out there, and you have to satisfy that…