Photography as a Way of Life

for Oliver, Cami, and Julie Sebastião Salgado, From my Land to the Planet Contrasto, 2014   I first heard the name of Sebastião Salgado from Mev in the early 1990s.  She esteemed him more than any…

You Know This Is True

Let the Dow Jones drop 1000 points Let the Cubs lose ten games in a row Let the recession forecasts prove gloomier than expected Let my boss complain that I’m not rigorous enough in my…

Ekāgratā*

No sipping Northeast Coffee latte supreme with whipped cream No texting someone I’ll see in ten minutes No zoning out to Diane Rehm No penciling out the evening workout on a crumpled scratch pad No…

A Lifetime of Letters

The Letters of Allen Ginsberg, edited by Bill Morgan (Da Capo Press, 2008) I have a file titled “Noam Chomsky” that contains several letters from the linguist during the 1990s. I first began writing him…