Hermann Hesse – In the Fog In the Fog By Hermann Hesse TO wander in fog—how queer! Lonely are bush and stone, No tree sees the other near, Each is alone.
Women in Afghanistan Reclaim Voice through Poetry From Afghanistan…, further evidence of the healing power of art. Meanwhile, here in the United States, these kinds of stories ought to serve as cautionary tales to underscore the deleterious effects of cutting funding for the arts. As poetry goes, … Read more →
Rites of Passage – A Poem by Keorapetse Kgositsile I had the pleasure of attending a poetry reading by South Africa’s Keorapetse Kgositsile at UCLA’s Hammer Museum on March 27, 2012. Later, Professor Kgositsile signed copies of his latest collection of poems, This Way, I salute you. Factoid: Kgositsile is the estranged … Read more →
Only that Breath Breathing Human Being – Rumi Only Breath Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up