Reading Galeano
Lindsay Weston recently wrote me Asked if I could recommend anything to read Instantly I thought of the trilogy So long on my shelf Barely perused but Now may be the time! I sent word…
Poem of the Day: Daisy Zamora, 50 Love Poems and an Unfulfilled Confession to Ernesto Cardenal
If I had known Ernesto as he appears in the yellowed photograph Julia showed me: lean, bearded, with his plaid shirt and linen pants, hands in his pockets and that vague air of helplessness, I’d…
A Subversive Question
The Military Police have told you that all The Church should worry about is “souls” But what about the children starved by corporations? –Ernesto Cardenal, Epistle to Monsignor Casaldáliga
Sara Roy Challenges Elie Wiesel
This is a must-read prophetic address by researcher Sara Roy to Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel on the latter’s contribution to Israel’s destruction of Gaza.
From Walt through Me to You
Allons! the road is before us! It is safe—I have tried it—my own feet have tried it well. Allons! be not detain’d! Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten, and the book on the…
Give, Give, and Give Some More
Give away career advice Give dropping-out-of-grad-school encouragement Give reminders of the lojong slogans (“Don’t ponder others”) Give away Harold Bloom’s Western Canon reading list Give a 9 by 12 b/w photo by M. Puleo Give…
Crucifixion & Resurrection
1. All that could happen to one who joined: Imprisoned, hooded, beaten, castrated, eyes pulled out, Buried alive, burned alive. 2. When I saw the disinterred bones of the two of you I remembered you…
The Path
I came to the revolution by way of the gospels. It was not by reading Marx but Christ. It can be said that the Gospels made me a Marxist…. –Ernesto Cardenal
Share the Wealth, with Cami Kasmerchak–So Go: The Stories of a Semester in South Africa
Cami will share her reflections on her five months in Cape Town this past spring, and offer tales of one college student’s adventures wandering, exploring, and discovering. Woven through memories of bungee jumping, teaching preschool, meeting…
Manifesto
Exteriorismo is a poetry created with images of the exterior world, the world we see and sense, and that is, in general, the specific world of poetry. Exteriorismo is objective poetry: narrative and anecdote, made…