Dear Mark
Dear Mark, Here is my reflection of Dear Layla, I thought at first that I should apologize for the scatter-brained style of writing I’m sure this letter will take. Then I thought, he probably doesn’t…
Tag: The Book of Mev
Subversives
In the New Directions collection, Zero Hour and Other Documentary Poems, Ernesto Cardenal includes an “Epistle to Monsignor Casaldáliga (whom Mev Puleo interviewed in her book The Struggle is One, and from which I quoted…
Wednesday 19 September
A sunny day 70 degrees Sitting outside together We discuss the future— Prospects, possibilities, The quixotic quest for balance in this topsy-turvy world
Sealing the Deal
Long ago, I did a reading and signing of The Book of Mev at Left Bank Books in the Central West End. I asked one of my former students, Magan Wiles, to read the very…
Writing down Bones/32
Dear Poet, I wonder When you cried Where you cried Why you cried I cried living that story I cried writing that book I cry thinking of you crying When you do have words Or…
Upon Finishing The Book of Mev by Sandra Tamari
Am I deserving of that kind of love? Would she have been my friend? Would she have had kids by now? What happened to the cats? Waiting for Jad’s Tae Kwon Do to let out…
Email from Cameroon
Dr. C, Hello! Hope this email finds you well. Classes must be well on its way and I am sure you are enlightening many other students like myself as we speak. I’ve wanted to write…
No Time for Secured Transactions, Professional Responsibility, or Constitutional Law II by Safa Alamir
Doc, I finally had access to my mailbox today. Your masterpiece was waiting for me. I needed it. I have been cold for months now; avoiding emotions, running away from hurt, fleeing pain. I was…