AFTERMATH Big Sur, California, May 2009 Phosphorescent green flickers against wet dark, fire in another tongue Memorials of trees, stripped bare, black as mummies, stand witness Leaf-laden alders, parchment ghosts, testify in blanched whispers Our dead...
TEAHO– USE IN THE JAPANESE GARDEN The young man and the ancient Japanese flute make sounds like breath and wind, like rain and river, make sounds that soar—like birds— sounds that sing— toward evening’s silence, sounds we are told, of water dripping— from...
Kayle Kaupanger, Unsplash Trump International Hotel And Tower Chicago. Chicago, United States. *** From Kafka’s Castle to Trump’s Tower by Carmen Firan Every morning K waited to be called up into the Castle. A mysterious authority ruled over a world of fear and...
JJ Thompson photo. Unsplash.com *** What do the 2015 PISA Results Tell Us About American Schools? An Encouraging Story… by Larry Dake The public refrain has been familiar for some time now: “Public schools are in crisis and we have to fix them.” This theme...
Wikipedia Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights marchers. Bravery In Education by Brian G. Fay My teaching career began long after the revolutions of the sixties and seventies. I wasn’t born until 1968 and so I never marched in the protests for Vietnam let...
Talk by matusf *** The Talk SEPTEMBER 1955 In a town as small as Fernald, rumors blew like milkweed blasted from a broken pod. Customers whispered while waiting in Carson’s checkout line. Employees snaking through the entrance and exit stiles of the atomic plant...
Tight Antic II. Oil on Canvas, Hawk Alfredson *** Rethinking Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World in Trump’s America If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever. ...
How Trump Propaganda Works By Thomas Klikauer John Pilger may certainly be correct in arguing that “Trump is not the Issue” but the way the latter’s propaganda works certainly is. Trump undoubtedly values the propagandistic role in domination and oppression and...
Steve Rude | Rainy Day |22 x 30 | Watercolor on Paper *** 2017: The Year Comics Finally Became Fine Art by Matt Kennedy In the years that have passed since the first Pop Sequentialism show opened at La Luz de Jesus Gallery back in May 2011, respect for modern comic...
Fred Roberts photo The Pinpricks are a trio fronted by Ronja Kaminsky. *** Dispatches from the Other Side Music Editor Fred Roberts takes a look back to 2016, which was a rich cultural year — and here, without ado, follows a roundup of some of the highlights…...
Steve Poleskie with his first airplane, a Champion Citabria 7ECA, 1972 *** Teaching Myself to Fly an Airplane by Stephen Poleskie Columnist When I mentioned that I was writing an article about teaching myself to fly, my friend asked: “Who do you think you are,...
Jennifer V. Love photos Guanajuato, Mexico *** The Messenger of San Juan de Chamula by Jennifer V. Love II haven’t been in a church since my grandfather’s funeral over a year ago, but now that I’m traveling in Mexico, I’m checking out churches like a regular...
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