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The Monastery and Trekking in Krupa Canyon by John Lane
When we headed from the coast into the Croatian hinterlands we had only a sandwich the hotel in Trogir had made us for lunch. We expected the trip to take about two hours to…
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Travel/Writing by John Lane
For writers travel happens often in both a real and literary space. I always try to track down poetry from wherever I'm going, and sometimes I read novels, essays, blogs. Of course there is…
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Just Like This Train [by John Lane]
We are rolling through the Slovinian alps and I'm listening to Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark on my iPod– "I'm always running behind the times, just like this train…" and the 1970s lyrics…
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Poetry from Aotearoa/New Zealand 4 — Hinemoana Baker’s ‘Burial’
Burial For Joe Now the grandsons have a job they can do.Are they paint or shadow?There is something of the swan about them.Are there birds on the horizon?Clouds of black rise from their shovels,…
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John Lane Guest Author July 14-18
This week we welcome back John Lane as our guest author. John is a professor of environmental studies and director of the Goodall Environmental Studies Center at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC. His latest…