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“Tea Lay” [by Sharon Dolin]
Tea Lay after John Clare A missed tea, that piece of, to say, Off, grief.We all come, by turns meretricious, to someone's wry relief.Tangled wit, the ought of risible Tea…
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Tibetan poetry, possibly by the Sixth Dalai Lama (1682-1706/46) [by Simon Wickham-Smith]
A long time ago, I was a Tibetan Buddhist monk in Scotland. Then I disrobed and began to work on translating the life and work of the maverick and mysterious 6th Dalai Lama, Tsangyang…
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Cloud Studies: Our Deep Ecological Spirits in Poetry and Non-Fiction [by Elizabeth Myhr]
This is a topic that has interested me for many years. How do we, as writers, get in behind all of our cultural assumptions and think for ourselves? Get to the root of things? …
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Modern Mongolian Literature in Seven Days – Part 2: D Nyamsüren [by Simon Wickham-Smith]
Danzangiin Nyamsüren (1949-2002) was one of Yavuuhulan's three principal students. Unlike both Mend-Ooyo (coming tomorrow) and Dashbalbar (coming Wednesday), Nyamsüren preferred to keep out of the spotlight, spending much of his adult life living…
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Grace Paley Poem
One Day One day lying on my stomach in the afternoon trying to sleep I suffered penis envy (much to my surprise and with no belief in Freud for years in fact extreme…
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What A Return to Standard Time Does to Me
Tip of the hat to Laura Orem, for sending this along: — sdh
