“When My Father Wakes Up,” “Yes We Have No,” and “My Mother Is At The Bridge."
Arts & Cultural Critique
Asylum: A Personal, Historical, Natural Inquiry in 103 Lyric Sections
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Julie R. Enszer reviews "Asylum: A Personal, Historical, Natural Inquiry in 103 Lyric Sections" by Jill Bialosky.
Uncategorized
The Story of My Socks
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"I hated him then. I hated him with hot rage and cold bitterness. I hated him for being mean to Mom. I hated him for making me share a room with my brother, and for how helpless he was in the face of Mom’s illness. I hated him for not understanding me." A short story by Jennifer Anne Moses.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Foreword to “101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium”
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As a poet, creative writing instructor, and Chassidic Jew, I am fascinated by the surprising ways contemporary poetry and Judaism overlap. It was, therefore, a great honor and challenge to write the following essay, which serves as the “Foreword” to 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium (Ashland Poetry Press, 2021), an anthology of poems on the Jewish experience by a diverse group of today’s established and emerging poets.
Arts & Cultural Critique
An Artist for the Ages: John Outterbridge (1933-2020)
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John Outterbridge, a truly great artist, died on December 23. He was my friend for many decades and a friend and mentor to the entire community of Black artists in Los Angeles and to artists throughout the county and even the world.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Becoming Each Other: Why We Need Riva Lehrer’s “Golem Girl” Right Now
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Phillip Barcio reviews Riva Lehrer's new memoir "Golem Girl."
Arts & Cultural Critique
Jacob
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You emerge changed from the battle, but beware believing that changed means improved.
Ecological Transformation
Harmonic Convergence
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Sandra Bass reviews Michael Nagler’s "The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the Story of Human Nature."
Politics & Society
Ruth Messinger Reviews Arthur Waskow’s Dancing in God’s Earthquake
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Arthur Waskow knows our potential and how far we have yet to go to realize it, and he is determined to give us food for that journey.
Arts & Cultural Critique
A Theory of Everything
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"Perhaps most of all, I miss discussing your theories, Nora. Under the spell of love and a dancing fire, our nude bodies warmed by burning oak and afterglow, we explored without telescopes or complicated mathematical formulas. Free radicals, you called us." A short story by Ron Rindo.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Camus’s Other Plague: State of Siege
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The Plague’s apparent realism displays the ambiguity inherent in every allegory: the literal events in the narration occasionally get in the way of their presumed figurative meaning.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Funicular
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Oh merciful God, please don’t let me die before I’ve used Gaudi’s model in a poem that can outwit art like he cheated gravity & math.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Against Translation and the Ethics of Compassion
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"Against Translation" is a model for dwelling in the unknowable space of compassion.