Four months and 16 days later, the first meeting of Poets of Babel has finally taken place and it was amazing. We were only 7, but then again 7 is the number of perfection. Ira, a Russian Israeli and Hebrew teacher arrived first. I met Ira at Hillel House in 2008 when I made myContinue reading “The First Poets of Babel Meeting! (…was 3 months ago!)”
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A Year of Transformation
{Written December 29, 2011 & January 1, 2011} “This is my inception, I’m writing my dreams” ~Common, “Blue Sky” The Dreamer, The Believer 2011 has been a great year of positive transformation. I got published (“Bread, Water and Gas” in the Ilanot Review http://www.biu.ac.il/HU/en/cw/ilanot/ & “No Name” in Yes, Poetry http://yespoetry.com/post/13311920484/vol-2-issue-11-november-2011), lost weight, and got promoted at workContinue reading “A Year of Transformation”
Tower of Babel Collage
So…I am obsessed with the Tower of Babel. I’m not 100% sure why, although it’s clear to me that this obsession relates to my love of languages. But it’s not just the love of speaking languages or even hearing them, but just seeing the text of another language sends me into an irrationally ecstaticContinue reading “Tower of Babel Collage”
Know
I want to write the books call me from the womb of my mind I want to establish the plans ache & beg to be born I want to paint the colors, never seen cry out in oblivion My stories, my places, my scenes & images My kaleidoscope collages are there, their non-existent existence soContinue reading “Know”