Contemporaries

“Who are my contemporaries?” Juan Gelman asks himself.  Juan says that sometimes he comes across [people] who smell of fear, in Buenos Aires, Paris, or anywhere in the world, and feels that these [people] are…

The Slow and the Rich

“I want to do things like that that seem to me to be about creating a space where people can kick back, eat, laugh, tell stories, be comfortable, and by extension send that vibration across…

The Bell Is for All of You

“Anything you are attached to, let it go.” –Buddhist teaching I gave that bell to Mev 25 years ago It must have been sounded 10,000 times Pete heard it In fall of 2001 You heard…

Grace Abounds (December 14, 2013)

The realization that Pete Mosher is made up of non-Pete Mosher elements Jeremy’s stellar slideshow of the all-American family John Kavanaugh & John Foley’s calming recording of “How Can I Can from Singing?” Don Lassus…

Radical Presence

The following passages are from an interview with U.S.  poet Anne Waldman, co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics… Poetry needs the breath. It needs the voice. It needs the body. It needs…

Alive beyond Alive

My friend Loyola works at  Mount Saint Joseph (she’s chair of the Art Department)  and knew Pete Mosher.  We reminisced last night and today before Pete’s funeral.  Cab picked me up at Lo’s  this morning…

Sometimes and Other Times

Sometimes You have such lucidity that people  are jaw-dropped in awe Other times Even with 20/20 you can’t see what’s in front of you Sometimes You’re the strongest person, everybody’s Rock of Gibraltar Other times…