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My Borderlands: Location “of Potent Unresolve” [by Mari L’Esperance]
The following is adapted from Betwixt and Between: Embracing the Borderlands of My Mixed Heritage, a piece I wrote for Discover Nikkei in January 2013. • “I wish to work perpetually on the borders—to…
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Phil Levine & the Burger Bitch [by Kate Daniels]
photo (c) Vanderbilt University About twenty years ago in Nashville, when Philip Levine was Vanderbilt University’s visiting writer, there was a Burger King on 21st Avenue South, at the edge of the college’s magnolia-fringed…
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Malinda Markham: Felt Intelligence, Compassionate Interiority [by Mari L’Esperance]
American poet Malinda Markham was just 44 years old when she died in September 2012. I didn’t know Malinda intimately, but she and her intense, quiet poems made a deep impression on me.…
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One Must Have a Mind of Spring [by Mari L’Esperance]
The season of renewal has begun to arrive here in our corner of Southern California. If you’re not from SoCal, you might be one of many who think we don’t have spring—or any “real”…
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Our Father in the Wind: Remembering Philip Levine [by Mari L’Esperance]
photo by Geoffrey Berliner A little more than two weeks after his death on Valentine’s Day from pancreatic cancer, I am still acclimating to the reality of a world without Phil Levine. In…
