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• Revolutoinary Poets Brigade

  October 2, 2009

  •     I was recently invited to join this collective of engaged poets.  (How can one resist joining a revolutionary poets brigade?)   They have a number of actions planned starting with two readings.  The first one, held last Friday was wonderful. Poets included myself, Alejandro Murguia, Sarah Menafee, Neeli Cherkovski, Agneta Falk, Arthur Sheridan, Rosemary Manno, Carla Badillo Coronado, ...
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• Toni Morrison, Character, & Back to Blog

  October 1, 2009

  •     Last night I went to see Toni Morrison. It had been decades since I had seen her, she had a new book which I knew I was going to read. She is a woman who fully lives her  life and even if the questions posed, or discussion presented does not fully engage me, I know Morrison will say something that will make me think.  She’s wide and funny and down to earth, always real, always ...
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• Writing the New, Finishing the Old - It's a Matter of Keys

  November 14, 2008

  •     Yesterday I finally finished the next chapter in the novella I am writing. This chapter like many sat with its beginning words held between my teeth, carried in my armpit, running through my belly, recounted at night before I fell asleep so it would be there waiting for me the next time I cleared the space in both my life and my head to move the story forward once again.  Now this ...
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