willem dafoe

by Bill on July 12, 2010

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Toni Morrison

by Bill on June 27, 2010

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

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stephen petronio – new york, new york

July 31, 2009

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dr. lanny real bird – crow agency, montana

July 6, 2009

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Our language identifies who we are.  For the Crow our life doesn’t revolve around ownership of things…it is the ownership of our words.

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“Humanity is not something man simply has…”

July 1, 2009

Humanity is not something man simply has. He must fight for it anew in every generation, and he may lose his fight.  Where…the uniqueness of his individual person? – Paul Tillich, “A Prefatory Note By Paul Tillich”, New Images of Man

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The Work of Memory – Carter Ratcliff

June 19, 2009

Unbound by tradition, uninhibited by fear, each American is free to invent “an original relation to the universe,” or so said Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1836.  Since then, a uniquely American idea of self-creation has been reduced to its opposite, as we learn to define ourselves through consumerist choice in everything from art to politics.
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john manson – boston, massachusetts

June 10, 2009

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At the beach/ I’d be in my waders/ the waves would be crashing/ Senator Webster would be fishing/ and I would be asking him questions about politics.

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Bill Hayward Day by Justin Taylor

May 30, 2009

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HOWL – poet jason shinder on HOWL

May 28, 2009
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john goggin

May 23, 2009

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boston national historical park

Having served in Vietnam, John is continually reminded of “what it must have been like to be at the battle that June day in 1775.” To find oneself directly connected to that string that stretches throughout history, that profundo note that reverberates forever in all who have been in battle. [...]

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