I have an hour or so left of 2005, which wasn’t so bad as years go, I suppose. Rue, Sam, Bob and I published a book. Shelby and I were able to celebrate my grandparent’s anniversary one last time in California. We saw a smashing version of the opera The Marriage of […]
Anxiety, dejection, depression, indifference, melancholia, twitching, withdrawal; call it what you may, I suffer from it. For far too many countless days I have sent my body out under this cursed ashen sky only on autopilot. In these plaguing moods I spend all my waking energies just trying to stay level and balanced. […]
It probably happens to everyone at some point. I’ve seen responses to it that were down right vile and knee jerkily reactionary. I admit I am on doddering grounds here, went in with apprehension about my own skills and talents and last night finally got a response that said, in effect, “Yes, you […]
Are there any poets in Belize? My research to date has turned up very little. There are Garifuna/ Garinagu musicians galore, but Garifunas poets?
Someone, somewhere, might be sitting in Jake’s Purple Space Monkey Internet Cafe, in the village of Placencia, composing a sonnet about tubing down the river in Cockscomb Basin […]
It is indeed the case that the high literary level of a given statement can afford it protection. Often, however, it also arouses suspicion. In such case it may be necessary to lower it deliberately … Propaganda that stimulates thinking, in no matter what field, is useful to the cause of the oppressed. — Bertolt […]