Entries by Bethany

Poetry Reading, March 2, 6-7 p.m., Hibulb Cultural Center

hcc-mar2017-poetry-kcraft-breid-1 I would love to get this flyer to just show up in the full here, but I’m wrestling with my limited technological abilities, so I’m not sure it will. Click on the link, if not. Technology — both a curse and a blessing — sort of like learning that we have discovered 7 planets […]

The Lives of the Heart

When I was getting an MFA in poetry, one of my professors admonished us to take on more complex subject matter. One doesn’t write about moons and hearts,” he said. But in her 1997 interview with The Atlantic, Jane Hirshfield offered some counter-wisdom. It’s an interview I have reread many times, and it seems to me that […]

Jeanne Lohmann, 1923-2016

I went searching this morning for a list of books by the Quaker poet Jeanne Lohmann to recommend to a friend, and learned that she recently died. I don’t know whether to be sad or to rejoice that the world got to share this woman’s light for such a long time. Some years ago a […]

The Holstee Manifesto

Where we began and what keeps us moving forward today. The Holstee Manifesto is a reminder of the values we live and work for. Source: The Holstee Manifesto (includes a video representation — you can consider this my Superbowl ad — Bethany)