The ethos of my birthday safari is to explore, explore, explore. Live a creative life. You’re only on this earth for a short amount of time. Let’s make the best of it.
Have you every wanted to communicate with pigs, speak Pigalese? You can’t learn it from Berlitz or Duolingo. You need to consult animalist and president of Humble Pig Sanctuary Eliza Zeitlin in Darlington, South Carolina. Here’s your chance.
Ladies and Jellyspoons, Hoboes and Tramps, Crosseyed Mosquitos and Bowlegged Ants, I come before you to stand behind you to tell you something I know nothing about. AI was something I knew nothing about. To satisfy my curiosity, I input a story I had written using traditional nonsense verses into ChatGPT. The results were startling, flabbergasting, and it’s the subject of my new Poetry of Everyday Life Blog.
Visiting the Cradle of Democracy During the American Election Poetry of Everyday Life Blogpost #29 Most souls, on occasion, feel the need to embark
Poetry of Everyday Life Blogpost #28 Guest Blog: Kiran Singh Sirah Stories of Our Place The National Hurricane Center named the storm Helene. Despite the
Sharing Sorrow through Laments Poetry of Everyday Life Blogpost #27 Produced in collaboration with Voices: Journal of New York Folklore Edited by Martha Dahlen
In Memory of Nelly Tanco We recently lost one of the premier voices of the Puerto Rican plena tradition. Nellie Tanco Ramos (1947-2024) embodied the
Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time Holds Truths for Soviet Russia—and the US A Review and Reflections Poetry of Everyday Life Blogpost #26 Produced in collaboration
As preservationists, we sometimes speak metaphorically about “cultural capital” and “social currency.” But what if there were an actual currency of memory and meaning to prevent places with deep roots in a community to be sold or displaced. What if memories, associations, and values were transformed into units of meaningful exchange?