Video: Ofrin – “Sleep Alone”
Ofrin performs “Sleep Alone” at Sofar Berlin on November 21st, 2011.
Bob Ziller: Radio
Over the years, occasionally someone will ask about my religious affiliation, to which I reply: “Well, my mother’s Catholic and my father’s Jewish, but I pretty much just listened to … Continue reading
Sharon Doubiago: Bagdad, April 17, 2003
I wake in the night to my father, the end of the world again. Lightning strikes, rain pours down our bombs. I confess I want to live. I want—bomb … Continue reading
Nika Knight: Riot Police Swarm Cleveland as FBI Tells Protesters Not to Show at the Republican Convention
Authorities in Cleveland, Ohio, are adding fuel to an already “combustible” atmosphere, some activists say, as the city readies extra jail space and courtrooms and shuts down a local university … Continue reading
Video: Debussy, Clair de lune, piano solo visualization
This video is a recording of Clair de lune by Claude Debussy performed by Stephen Malinowski and accompanied by a scrolling score also created by Malinowski. “Each pitch class (C, C-sharp, … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: God is in her Hand
When I was a young teacher, I used to baffle my students by asking them to prove that their hands exist. And while my youth was in many ways both … Continue reading
Wislawa Szymborska: Cosmic Solitude
I admit that I find the question of life beyond Earth quite interesting, but still I’d prefer not to have it settled too quickly and definitively. For example, I’m cheered, … Continue reading
Sam Hamill: True Peace
Half broken on that smoky night, hunched over sake in a serviceman’s dive somewhere in Naha, Okinawa, nearly fifty years ago, I read of the Saigon Buddhist monks who stopped … Continue reading
Mike James: What I Know About Poetry
some things keep happening a rock rolls down a hill, bounces, bounces, rolls along makes a sound every time it bumps the dirt cracks itself and the silence … Continue reading
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg: Welcome to the New Democratic Party
This weekend in Orlando, Florida members of the Platform Committee met to help create the Democratic party’s positions on a number of key issues. I was honored to attend as … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: Number 1 Broadway Local, 1981
Armpits soaked through shirts, through suit jackets, urinous funk of a madwoman sleeping, taking up two seats in a subway car crammed with the silent going home, the last bit … Continue reading
Abby Quillen: How to Harvest and Prepare Wild Greens for your Table
Learning to harvest and prepare common edible wild plants is a delicious way to connect with nature, add nutrient-dense foods to your diet, save money at the grocery store, and … Continue reading
Video: Harmony with Horses
. Canadian horse trainer Jonathan Field thinks that many riders have lost sight of horsemanship as a collaboration between horse and rider – a dynamic that he believes rests in … Continue reading
Sharon Fagan McDermott: Summer Prayer — Pennsylvania
~in memory of Brendan We make each other a mooring, early evening here in the small world, where gods grumble and root in the dirt and the red … Continue reading
