Friday, March 30, 2018
Thursday, March 29, 2018
Monday, March 26, 2018
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Open Call for Artists and Writers in Melaque
Art shows are in bloom this spring in the Costalegre. |
I say Melaque, you say San Patricio. A new Centro de Arte y Cultura is opening at Las Cabanas #15 — across the street from La Paloma in San Patricio, Jalisco, Mexico. Expat artists and writers are encouraged to join local artisans in promoting art and culture in the Costalegre at the inaugural art show and sale on March 24.
In attending and showcasing their creative output for market, expats get to strengthen their ties to the community while exchanging ideas with native born creators of all things artistic.
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Blanca Segura y la poesia de la Ceguera
Labels:
Blanca Segura,
Ceguera,
español,
Peru,
poesia,
World Poetry Day
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
River Mary Malcolm and the Vagina Nigretto
Labels:
poem,
River Mary Malcolm,
The Mother Poems,
Vagina Nigretto
Monday, March 19, 2018
Stacy Rae Lake and her Mystical Kauai
Labels:
Mystical Kauai,
Stacy Rae Lake
Saturday, March 17, 2018
Friday, March 16, 2018
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
The Prisoners Literature Project
Nelson Mandela, Eldridge Cleaver, Jean Genet, Angela Davis, and Gandhi have written about the great solace they received from books in prison. |
In perusing an "anarchist collective" bookstore in Haight-Ashbury named Bound Together, we spoke with volunteer staff about life, politics and the Prison Literature Project — a project to give prisoners books. They had a couple of shelves of used books selling for a buck or two to help fund this project. They passed me a flyer about the project and I asked if I could reprint it here in the hope of spreading the word about the Prison Literature Project. They gladly gave their consent.
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Great Expectations in Haight-Ashbury
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Where 21st century hippies quote 19th century Dickens on sidewalks. |
On a recent walk through the streets of San Francisco we came upon a quote from Charles Dickens 1861 novel Great Expectations scrawled upon the sidewalk at the intersection of Haight and Ashbury — Ground Zero for the Summer of Love.
The quote as it appears in Haight-Ashbury reads as follows:
Saturday, March 10, 2018
On the Road: America's Poet Maya Angelou at 15 Breaks Color Barrier as First Black Streetcar Conductor in San Francisco
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San Francisco today runs historic street cars from many cities, like this one from Toronto. |
Some notable people, in life, get to write an autobiography. Maya Angelou wrote seven autobiographies. The trailblazing poet who was reverentially called "the black woman's poet laureate" was also a trailblazer outside of arts and letters — Maya Angelou was the first black streetcar conductor in San Francisco in 1943. At age 15.
Monday, March 5, 2018
Thursday, March 1, 2018
A Lenten Poem by Olga Broumas
Labels:
Greece,
Lent,
Lenten,
Olga Broumas,
poem,
Soie Sauvage
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