There is a lot of talk in Peace Corps, that bureaucratic dinosaur, of not getting involved with the politics of the country you are in. It is another paradox of our government since simply being in certain countries as a single American becomes a politic act regardless of your beliefs. Still, Washington DC […]
What this black and white snapshot of Armenia’s capital city, Yerevan, and the legendary Mount Ararat in the background fails to evoke is the glorious purple haze 1 that separates the two and at time it feels as if all one needs to do is walk outside the citylimits and find oneself in the foothills […]
she wants to write,
all bodies look good
by candlelight, the mood is right,
pen in margins, pen all night.
Melanie Faith
The delight of having friends who are poets is they always surprise you with their wonderful work and new ideas and new ways of seeing the world. My friend Melanie goes under the pen name of Writergal76 […]
When did Grand Rapids become the poetry mecca of Michigan? Well, at least this October. Grand Valley State University will be bring Sharon Olds and Sonia Sanchez and I just found out that The Grand Rapids Community College will be bringing Sherman Alexie for a lecture (October 18)!! Their “Diversity Lecture Series XII” […]
[Armenian] is a rich language, and would amply repay anyone the trouble of learning it. — Lord Byron.
One of my odd claims to fame is that for about thirteen months I taught English conversation at the Lord Byron English School in Gyumri, Armenia (1995 - 96). The inside of the school was amazing. […]