Yesterday’s email brought this announcement from Kate Reavey: Peninsula College invites you to participate in the next offering of Conversations Toward a Culture of Justice on August 6, from 4:00 – 6:00 pm, via Zoom. Peninsula College’s summer conversation series was inspired by Nitasha Lewis, Upward Bound Manager and Peninsula College student, who worked with Dr. Helen […]
Among my busy calendar of Poetry Zoom events this week, I was able to attend Tracing the Maps, a poetry reading hosted by Seattle’s Hugo House, featuring Carolyne Wright, Claudia Castro Luna, Cindy Williams Gutiérrez, and Raúl Sánchez. (It is not available as a recording, but it should be.) I had heard three of the […]
I lifted this from a friend’s blog, The Poetry Department…aka The Boynton Blog For some reason, I especially needed to hear it today. Funny how the universe can respond. “I prefer the absurdity of writing poems/ to the absurdity of not writing poems.” Wisława Szymborska (July 2, 1923 – February 1, 2012) . . . […]
I can thank Robert Reich for introducing me to this poet, Clint Smith. I’m just beginning to explore his work, but in this poem, he reminds me of Naomi Shihab Nye in the way he looks at both sides of a controversy and asks us to rise to a new level of empathy, to reconsider […]