Falling in forest
floating upon sun’s gold leafed
treetops whirling home [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Heirloom
Nothing
for water to consume
nor wind to disseminate
No bone to char
nor ash for earth [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Walking Into Big Sur
A woman
is reading poetry with her hands
stanzas written into cliffs
before human beings walked upright
She combs beaches
retracing emotions
ocean drew out of sand [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Rules of the Road
There are exits
nobody can open
When calls for help
echo unanswered
break the door
set yourself free
[Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Beneath the Bixby Bridge
Beautified Kerouac
lost his mind
in a cabin beneath the Bixby Bridge
Sleeper waves
wash the grey matter up
onto beaches from Big Sur to Mendocino [Read more…]
The Politics of Trees
By Patricia Staley
I’m getting sick of stump speeches and I have a deep-rooted distrust of politicians, in general.
How many leaflets can you bear to pull out of your mailbox?
Every branch of government is at stake and it makes you feel like a sap if you don’t vote.
The grass roots movements have lost momentum. It seems like everything is supported by hedge funds and other big financial off shoots.
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Thunderbird Blues
The progressive run
through Yosemite’s gridlocked valley:
a modulation of the redwoods and granite
slide-slipping down Tioga Pass
The diving elevation
composed as haiku on paper bags–
a sure sign poets were at the wheel [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Manzanar
10.000 blossoms
36 blocks plucked and blown
Into Sierra’s
Cement foundations
Hold up machine gunned peaks
Snowy kimonos [Read more…]
A Long Hot Summer: Where’s the Love in the Anthropocene?
One of the more thought-provoking books I read this summer was Love in the Anthropocene, a collection of stories by Dale Jamieson and Bonnie Nadzam. As the title suggests, the tales in this volume are about what the world is becoming and will be as a result of climate change.
Interestingly the world Jamieson and Nadzam depicts is not a Hollywood-style apocalyptic landscape, but an earth largely bereft of natural environments, where zoos house the last animals, natural food is rare, cities have adjusted to catastrophic weather, and those fortunate enough to live inside the bubble of “civilization” are surrounded by vast discarded populations who are left to tough it out on the outskirts of “normal life.”
What is striking about this scenario is that it is not necessarily dystopian for the characters who inhabit it because they have simply come to accept a world we might be horrified by as “the way it is.” Put another way, for these future humans the demise of nature has been naturalized as a simple fact of life, just like the brutal inequality and the blithe replacement of the real with the simulation that defines their social landscape. [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Backfire
Ashes on car windows
Big Sur is burning
Roads closed
evacuation imminent
Trapped
in the apocalyptic
centrifuge of helicopter blades
slashing
fire retardant sun [Read more…]
Dreaming Under Blue Skies In My Solitude
Are we ever living
in a freaked out time?
Like you got Donald Trump
running for president,
not in a cartoon, but in real time.
Then you got
folks mostly brown and black
being shot down in the street,
in fact,
by those who are licensed to “serve and protect,”
who, in effect,
don’t do either of that,
inspiring cries of “Blue Lives Matter”
and “All Lives Matter”
leaving “Black Lives Matter”
bearing the unmitigated blame
for all the shame.
It’s a new American game. [Read more…]
Laying the Groundwork of Groundwork Books
By Groundwork Books Collective
At the open house at Groundwork Books during alumni weekend our classic sign got a new layer of paint. A photo was posted online and we learned that the logo was designed by Charyn Segal and Lincoln Cushing.
It was Lincoln Cushing humself* that shared that bit of knowledge. Lincoln, a political poster designer and archivist, was involved in the original Groundwork Books project starting back in 1973.
Wanting to learn more about the groundwork of Groundwork Books (see what I did there mhmm) I reached out to Lincoln and he was happy to share some details. [Read more…]
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