How can the “Where I’m From” Poem Can Help Us Cross the Great Divide? City Lore’s Steve Zeitlin and Bowery Poetry’s Bob Holman take up this question and invite you to take a small step toward bringing this country together in their new blogpost, “I Am Not My Label!
Tim Hernandez, a poet and grandson of a migrant worker, has taken as his life’s work to research the families of all the migrant workers killed in the infamous 1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos Canyon, memorialized in Woody Guthrie and Martin Hoffman’s song “Deportee” – “all they will call you will be deportees.” On air, he told the Parable of the Horse, a tale that has everything to do with kind of work that folklorists and collectors of stories aspire to, as well as the pitfalls we all too often fall into. If you work closely with communities other than your own, heed this tale.
Stories from Nurses on the Front Lines by Samuel Lee Poetry of Everyday Life Blogpost #18 Intro “Being a folklorist is a bit like being
Looking Back at the Corona Virus Ten Thousand Years from Now by Kewulay KamaraPoetry of Everyday LifeBlogpost #17 IntroYou don’t even know what you know till
Poetry of Everyday Life Blogpost #16 by Martha Dahlen intro by Amy Chin and Steve Zeitlin As the Year of the Pig cycles into the
Making the Case for City Lore The interview was ending. I was anxious to get on with my day. But the interviewer had one last
The Poetry of Everyday Life Blogpost #15 Sitting next to me at a bookfair, a poet told me that the kindest thing his father ever
Carrie’s Cosmic Seder Poetry of Everyday Life Blog #14 Published in coordination with Voices: Journal of New York Folklore by Caroline Harris with an Intro
Ungentrified Sweets in a Gentrified City The Poetry of Everyday Life, blogpost 13 By Molly Garfinkel and Steve Zeitlin In the 1976 film Taxi Driver, Travis
