The Write Place speaks out on freedom
The Write Place published my poem. Scroll down to the fourth poem, but please read them all. It’s a beautiful collection. http://www.thewriteplaceatthewritetime.org/poetry.html
CARMEN at the MET
What stage set and performances in Sir Richard Eyre’s production of Bizet’s CARMEN. Would you know it, as the Toreador Song, the popular aria “Votre Toast, le peux vous le rendre” was being performed, I heard my dead mother singing to the tune, “Floray-a-door-ay/ Don’t spit on for floor-ay/ Don’t spit on your sister, Floray-adore-ray.” How I […]
Arianne Zwartjes in the refugee crisis from The Southern Review.
This essay in The Southern Review, by Arianne Zwartjes, regardless of your political affiliation, will stir you to action on behalf of the refugees. She’s an EMT who was actually on the ground where refugees were trying to enter and in camps where they are forced to settle. Give a listen:
A TRUE TALE OF THE SMALLPOX VACCINE
Up and Away…. Back in 1968 when you still needed a smallpox vaccination to go to Europe, I got mine free at a local Public Health Center. I thought it was going to be just a regular injection, but the needle was a narrow steel rod, about 6 cm long with two prongs at the […]