Please join us on Tuesday, February 9, 2021, for readings from Fenton Johnson’s At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and Creative Life, Lynnell Major Edwards’s This Green Great Valley, and Edwardo Ballestero’s The Rainy Season. If you're interested in attending, you can find the Zoom...
Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays has been selected by the American Library Association's Over the Rainbow Committee for its 2018 list of "outstanding works of literature and nonfiction" of interest to LGBTQ readers and those interested in LGBTQ issues....
Here's a link to my quick look at the roots of the literature of social justice, published in the excellent online magazine Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments: http://terrain.org/2014/reviews-reads/recommended-reads-literature-social-justice/ In autumn 2014 I'll be teaching a graduate craft of literature course through the University...
OK, here’s a chance to get more people to read about Larry Rose, and fold in another great San Francisco tip. Recently psychologist Harriet Lerner, author of The Dance of Anger and, most recently, Marriage Rules: A Manual for the Married and the Coupled Up,...
June 2011 The second afternoon of an eight-day silent Zen Buddhist retreat on an island in Puget Sound, I was dive-bombed by a bald eagle. Here are the facts: The retreat center (a rented Christian summer camp, more about that later) has a labyrinth, where the...
The Destiny of Us Fenton Johnson / April 2011 Oyez, oyez! Rise and hail! Bush wren, emu, crake and rail, Moa, parakeet, and chat, Puffleg, chiffchaff, after that An aged passenger is sat. With the dodo, twelve’s complete, Ivory bill may take his seat In jurisprudent black. In the docket, insolent, Man and...