Dreams & Afflictive States of Mind
Dreams and Afflictive States of Mind With Poet and Author Rodger Kamenetz Register Here When: Tuesday, June 1, 2021 – 7 PM to 9 PM Where: Virtual Zoom Event Fee: CIL Member: $10 Non Members: Suggested Donation $20 Pre-registration Required – upon registration you will receive and email with a Zoom Link Rodger Kamenetz is an … Read more
THE RABBI PUPPET OF PRAGUE
My friend Richard Katrovas created the Prague Summer Program in the wake of the Velvet Revolution and I was fortunate to teach in it many times in the summer. I got to learn the culture of Prague, especially the Jewish culture of the Jewish Quarter with its twin icons, the Golem and Franz Kafka. Eventually … Read more
DREAM LOGIC RE-DREAMED
My friend Alexis Krasilovsky who is a noted film-maker and author also does graphic art. She read into DREAM LOGIC and produced two illustrations that I wanted to share. I think one of the best ways to read a poem is to write a poem for it, or as she did, to make an art … Read more
Theory of Gravity: Or a poem for my own damned birthday
Theory of Gravity, poem for my own damned birthday 1/20/21 There’s as much mystery in a fork falling under the table as in how I got to be here to drop it, how a being wholly composed of slowed down light could become so opaque. I fetched the dropped fork but how my … Read more
Jean Valentine a poet of the dream
“I had a teacher in college who said, ‘You could write from your dreams,’” she told Ploughshares, the literary magazine, in 2008, “and that was like being given a bag full of gold.” I was sad to learn of the death of Jean Valentine a gifted poet who wrote in the perfume of the dream. … Read more
