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“Dear You, Dear Me” Workshop

Letters have been around since wooden tablets, pottery, animal skin, and papyrus. They have played a valuable role in writing as an art form throughout history. The drive to address another whether friend, foe, or lover is a deeply human and ancient one. How does addressing another, or even ourselves, inform our creative process? How does the possibility of a correspondence or exchange influence our writing? How do letters transcend time and place?

The Compass and The Map: Ikigai Bio

At the Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance I have a class called “The Compass and the Map.” If you know anything about me, you know that I loved it in advance just based on the name alone. Also the course revolves around Ikigai and the four pillars model: what you love, what you areContinue reading “The Compass and The Map: Ikigai Bio”

The Babel in Us

These days we are all a bit confused. In English, “confusion” is one way to translate “Babel” but it also means “a mixture of sounds and voices” and that’s what Poets of Babel, the multilingual poetry club that I created, is about. I could say it all started, after talking the night away on theContinue reading “The Babel in Us”

We are the Music Makers

For almost 7 years, my friend D.J. Markey Funk and I had been holding on to this idea–until now. Though I did perform it at Cafe Tav (a mobile cabaret cafe), with music, this is a whole new world. Together as Euterpe, “We are the Music Makers” is my first spoken word song. Let meContinue reading “We are the Music Makers”

Split in Two: between Gifts and Blind Fury

 “Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.” ~ Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death   “Fame in theContinue reading “Split in Two: between Gifts and Blind Fury”

Because the Poets are Healers

                    This is just a piece of what’s going on in the world. 276 Nigerian girls kidnapped, three Israeli boys kidnapped and murdered, a Palestinian boy kidnapped and murdered, burned alive. I live in Jerusalem, so the latter is more poignant; there has been rioting, violence,Continue reading “Because the Poets are Healers”

LET’S GET LIT: Babbling towards Baghdad (My First Radio Interview!)

  I know, I know, I haven’t been around. But I’ve been studying poetry, falling in love lyric essay, being awaken at night by the muse. But now that the semester– and my first year of studying poetry– is over I’m getting busy again. Before I could fully get my foot out the door ofContinue reading “LET’S GET LIT: Babbling towards Baghdad (My First Radio Interview!)”

Update: New Pages, such as Poetry Reading Videos

I don’t know if any of you have noticed but I’ve been updating pages on my site with photos and videos of poetry readings and performances…drop menus! (It was exciting for me because it took me forever to figure out how to do it. You can remain unimpressed. I’ll understand.) Just to give you aContinue reading “Update: New Pages, such as Poetry Reading Videos”