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…
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…
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
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…
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…
The PLO struck a political bargain with the Israeli government: In return for recognition and permission to return to the occupied territories, the Palestinians would police the local population and refrain from insisting that Israel…
How does one make the decision to leave one’s home country for almost a decade and set up home in a new land? What type of experiences are gained as a minority twice-over? After spending…
A friend told me She went to her branch library Disappointed to find out Dead Poets Society‘s 10 copies Have 135 holds on them
“[Shoshani] didn’t teach piety; he taught the texts. The texts are more fundamental—and vaster—than piety. “ –Emmanuel Levinas
Yesterday I was reading a history of Truman’s decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan In one of the chapters The author noted that during the war The US thought of the Japanese As…