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Back up, possibly running

Back at the end of August, just before leaving for Morocco, I bid good-bye for awhile — with the last post being from the Pyrenees. Well, it so happens that I am back in...

Hiking the Pyrenean Peaks

Been hiking the Pyrenean peaks around Luchon City, and, when in the valleys, overbusy with family matters — my apologies for the long absence from the blog. When I started NOMADICS a few months...

THE POETRY BUZZ

Some time in early July I suggested on this blog that it would be nice to travel to London to take part in the Great South London trek celebrating Allen Fisher’s achievement with PLACE...

Dying

For today, a poem by Töge Sankichi (1912-1953) from the book Poems of the Atomic Bomb, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima, reprinted here from Jerome Rothenberg & Pierre...

…& for those friends in NYC

Subject: [bspg-sbu] 60th Anniversry Atomic Bombings, Interfaith Gathering On Friday, August 5, from 6:30 pm to 9:30pm, The New York BuddhistChurch and the Riverside Church will co-sponsor an Interfaith PeaceGathering. This year makes the...

more from "The Gift of Emptyness"

Here are a few more translations from Mohammed Bennis’s collection Le Don du Vide: RINGS Anchor the air to the rings of the doorsor to the ruins of the praisesThe sea fulfills youYour depth...

Ernst Jandl

Ernst Jandl (1925-2000), the great Austrian (sound/concrete, etc.) poet, would have been eighty today. The German daily, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, reminds of us the occasion and brings some unpublished poems, the following among them:...