Spring & Summer Readings & Workshops
READINGS April 26 at the Emerald Tablet, with Lizzy Acker, MK Chavez, Mariama Lockington May 23, with Alex Dimitrov Poetry Flash @ Moe’s June 2, Sunday Studio Reading June 7, launch for Farnoosh Fathi’s Great Guns, […]
Reincarnated in the Same Body
I’m not that interested in whether reincarnation is “real.” As in the romantic ideations of former lives people spin that in some way propagate a wish for how they’d prefer […]
Projecting the Sacred onto the Secular, and Vice Versa
Today I kept mixing up the sacred and secular as I encountered each in signage. First, on Church St. I caught out of the corner of my eye a van […]
I Kinda Vow, or Ryaku Demi-Fusatsu, The Half-Moon Ceremony
This Text, The Ryaku Demi-Fusatsu, or Half-Moon Ceremony is inspired by the Full Moon Ceremony, or Ryaku Fusatsu, a monthy renewal of the bodhisattva precepts. On the evening or morning […]
some inflections of happiness
Thinking about various kinds of happiness for tonight’s event with Theresa Wong at Montalvo in celebration of International Happiness Day. I’ve enjoyed how this event has shaped my attention over […]
Things I am Taking Forever to Do
As I was brushing my teeth, which may be one of the last remaining unmediated liminal spaces through which an idea might have a chance of slipping, I had this […]