These poetry films sat alongside a body of poems that I had written about my personal history of seeing and not seeing as a working-class gay British man, to confront the politics of seeing and underline how validating seeing can be, but also the difficulty of not being seen. Whilst I wa...
__4__ You can dream about writing the great American play that you want, but it's never going to happen unless you actually put pen to paper. You can dream about finding a cure for cancer, but it will never happen unless you actually go to school to become equipped with...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - President Alberto Fernández made a striking mistake in a press conference he gave together with the President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, on Wednesday, by citing the Mexican poet Octavio Paz, when in reality he was mentioning a verse of a song by ...
Spring flowers, winter snows: There's no being or non-being, nor denial itself." - Saisho "Holly and mistletoe Candles and bells, I know the message That each of you tells." - Leland B. Jacobs,Mrs. Ritters First Grade Critters "Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the ...
What sparked the Mexican-American War annexation of Texas Manifest destiny, the indian removal act, and moving out into the western part of the US is all under a bigger name called westward expansion the placing of the interest of one's own region ahead of the nation as a whole sectionalis...
by anyone, being able to be great in this nation. LAX LAX Land Spanish and Mexican influence, white domination disguised as liberal, servitude in exchange for slavery merely because of labor laws. A bountiful county with mountains and valleys, ...
And there I was – in the caves of Vieng Xai, over which American bombers flew following instructions to wipe out any and all signs of life, while villagers who had never heard of their oppressor adjusted their diurnal rhythms to the sound of the planes – there I was, thinking about ...
Whether it is in reality more beautiful than in other places, or whether being about the only beautiful thing we really have here, and on that account liable to be over-appreciated, I am unable to determine. After sunset, sometimes, owing, I suppose, to some peculiarity in the waning ...
She has other loyalties: to the American side of her family, to the formative scenes of her childhood, and to the pressures and dramas of the people in her largely Mexican-American neighborhood of San Antonio, Texas. Like William Stafford, whose poems she admires, she is a writer with ...
Interrogating myself about my anger, I realized I was not being petty or selfish; instead, I was afraid: afraid of the grueling car and wheelchair routines, afraid of repeating our near falls from the wedding day outing, afraid of so much of what is living life with ancient disabled ...