May 2013
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Once Upon A Time... →
I was accepted into the 2013 Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA) fiction workshop at UC Berkeley, taught by Junot Diaz, but need your help to go.
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express del gato: Tres poemas de Suheir Hammad... →
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En otras calles -y tantas otras- hoy se conmemora también la “Nakba”: el día llamado “Desastre” en que los palestinos recuerdan el inicio de su éxodo, la creación del estado de Israel.
Suheir Hammad, de quien ya dejamos por aquí un texto hace unos días, escribe desde eso. Nacida en…
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“Men try to dissuade me from everything
Love bids me do,
They don’t...”
– Hadewijch of Antwerp
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April 2013
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“Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the...”
– Jorge Luis Borges
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I’m a perpetual fire, searching for One capable and willing to help me glow steadily rather than immolate.
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“Politics is the family at breakfast. Who is there and who is absent and why. Who...”
– Mourid Barghouti, I Saw Ramallah
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Esta mañana leí esto en un email: Recuerda que un tropezón no es una caída.
Rain was streaming down my face. All I saw were his construction boots in a doorway on 44th Street. “Don’t get too wet.”
Too late.
Saw my deceased tia last night, snuggled in her white comforter & pillows. Happily. Knew she was gone. Looked at my arms and my tats were gone too. Knew I was dreaming. Tried to open a window and jump out to test, but there were child-proof gates.
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“Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my...”
– W.H. Auden
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“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.”
– C.G. Jung
March 2013
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Eva →
The train car was empty. I usually stayed awake on my way home from work at four in the morning, but I’d been studying for midterm exams that week. After three years of community college, I still found them draining. I leaned my head into my chest and closed my eyes, pretending to read the copy of El Diario on my lap, in case someone stepped into the car.
I smelled her before I saw her, a mix of...
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“We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.”
– Humbert Humbert in Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
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“Of all the many devices employed by Ego to keep us in his power, none is more...”
– Philip Kapleau (Introduction to Zen Keys by Thich Nhat Hahn)
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“…Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always...”
– Chinua Achebe, great Nigerian author and often considered the father of modern African lit, who just passed away. Rest in Peace. (source)
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“For in Zen, intellectual learning is nothing but the studying of the menu, while...”
– Philip Kapleau (Introduction to Zen Keys by Thich Nhat Hahn)
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