At the CH JUNG Center in Evanston IL I will present a special two hour class on using images to heal—in memory, dreams and perception. We will explore the role…
Monday, February 2 @ The Museum of Southern Jewish Experience (818 Howard Ave), 5:45-6:45pm Seeing into the Life of Things: Retrospective on Fifty Years of Jewish-American Poetry and Spiritual Autobiography (60 min)…
Learn about finding depth of feeling in waking life, in memory and in dreams in a beautiful rural retreat setting. Stillness, contemplation and deepening– seeing into the life of things with an eye made quiet.
It was lovely as always to talk with Susan Larson, New Orleans great advocate for books and authors. In this excerpt we talk about the core of Seeing into the…
A main difference between dreams and poetry is that seeing dream images is involuntary and effortless, while seeing images in words—reading with imagination—requires intention and participation. You can’t speed read…
Alice Notley (November 8, 1945 – May 19, 2025). I met Alice Notley in the late 60’s when I was an undergraduyate and later while living in Blatimore we did…
Gabriel Meyer Halevy, peace activist, nomad, composer, musician, and now author, interviews me on his monthly substack, ONCE A MOONTH where we talk about dreams, kabbalah and more. To listen…
Asterism Losing infinity I saved up for immediacy. Every hour I put a penny in to see the cornflower open its eye or to hear the thunder mutter proto- names….
GILGUL 2 1992 In 1992 Time Being Books re-issued an expanded edition, The Missing Jew: New and Selected Poems. I took lines from the old poems and using midrash made…