Strong Man
Postcards from the Present (in progress) It is a help towards sanity and calm judgment to acquire the habit of seeing contemporary events in their historical setting, and of imagining them as they will appear when they are in the past. –Bertrand Russell, “How to Read and Understand History” 1943 July 2016 Watching the Republican […]
Keeping Hearts and Minds Alive
(Susan’s Acceptance Speech for The Fred Cody Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement) I am deeply grateful for this honor. I want to thank those of you who have created this award and the organization that supports it, including independent book sellers and publishers, and especially Joyce Jenkins, without whose longtime efforts many of her fellow […]
Too Much Happens
(A review by Susan Griffin) Today, I am turning to Kathleen Weaver’s extraordinary book of poetry, her first, Too Much Happens. A title that reflects my feelings on the day after the massive terrorist attacks in Paris. These are elegantly spare poems, radiant, piercingly insightful, and somewhat rare today for this kind of poetics, moving. […]
The News From Paris
The news from Paris is terrible, and for me, almost too vivid. Any mass scene of violence is terrible of course, and all of them have deeply distressed me, whether a market place in Baghdad, a suburb of Beirut, in the streets of Damascus, a train traveling across Spain, a sky scraper in New York. […]