Malls, Paper, Weather
I found my way into a Papyrus paper goods store the other day. What a relief after the roil of stores with junior sizes and VERY LOUD [...]
Talk at WMU, Nov. 14
On Monday I'll be giving a talk at Western Michigan University called No Complacency: Imagination and Calls to Action. After decades of stubbornly refusing to give up on creative [...]
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, October 28, 2011
On Friday night I watched five (obsessive) musicians recreate the 1974 Genesis Lamb Lies Down on Broadway tour from the front balcony of Grand Rapids' [...]
W.S. Merwin on Imagination and Nature
One of the themes of W. S. Merwin's reading/talk/performance a couple of weeks ago was imagination. "Not living by imagination is killing us," he said, and went [...]
W.S. Merwin in Chicago
Not handfuls, but hundreds, lined up early in the corridor of the Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago, October 6, to await poet W. S. [...]
Ellen Meloy, Wise Woman
(Friday I got to talk with the Saugatuck Woman's Club. What a great group of wise women. This post is for all of you.) I've finally plunged [...]