Continue Reading Beyond Steeples Churches will be on display this week. Whatever complex – and complicated – relationship I have with organized religion of any kind,…
Continue Reading On the Term of Exile Our last poet in this week’s line-up really needs no introduction. We, however, need a reminder what we as host country did…
Continue Reading Speaking her Words I have always felt an affinity to the poetry of Rose Ausländer (her last name means foreigner in German) as well as…
Continue Reading No-Man’s-Land Her name is often spoken in the same breath as these others who are considered among the most brilliant German lyricist of…
Continue Reading Clouds as Guarantors Yesterday I introduced an Eastern European poet writing about exile who was not very well known. As a permanently poor refugee she…
Continue Reading Nowhereland Last week I found myself averting my eyes every time I came across images or words on the carnage in Syria. I…
Continue Reading It’s a Distortion. Objects reflected in water are one of the most (over)photographed subjects I can think of. What makes some of those images interesting…
Continue Reading It’s a Cryptogram. The last few days have brought snow to the Portland area and I could not help but be reminded of lace and…
Continue Reading It’s a Riddle I, for the life of me, cannot figure out how a sculptor can see a piece of wood and carve out her/his…
Continue Reading It’s an Enigma. And it should be one. Landscapes can acquire a strange, beautiful quality inspiring anything from subtle goosebumps to an outright sense of…
