Another of those odd things I’ll never publish elsewhere, so what the hell… THE END OF TIME: A SHORT PLAY Scene 1: (Idyllic setting: a family is picnicking on the grass.) ENTER Chicken Little (running): The sky is falling! The sky is falling! (Confusion. Alarm.) EXEUNT ALL Scene 2: (A publisher’s office.) Writer: So, if […]
I want to say so much in response to this writing by my Stonecoast colleague, poet Kazim Ali, but there’s really nothing to add, so I post it here without comment. Poetry is DangerousKazim Ali On April 19, after a day of teaching classes at Shippensburg University, I went out to my car and grabbed […]
Last October I had the chance to read my work as part of the Fifth International Festival of Poetry in El Salvador. Although I had sent a number of poems to the Fundacion Poetas for translation, their translator managed to accomplish only one. When I arrived, I had only one poem which could be read […]
“Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel, for example-I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.” — Nazim Hikmet Some months ago I was part of an extraordinary evening at the Boston Public Library, sponsored by PEN New […]
EVERYONE Columbus thought he discovered the Indies so he called the people he encountered Indians but he was wrong; he had discovered the working class. He took their sage,not their advice;it smoldered like ragebut smelled nice. One of the Santa Maria’s crew, avaricious and schooled in flattery, suggested to Columbus that he try calling them […]
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