Jan Phillips Check out Jan Phillips’ article Re-Pairing Opposities and her video We Are the Creators Giving Voice to your Body’s Sacred Revelations Recorded February 18 2021 These are prophetic times and the prophets among us are showing up everywhere, as poets,...
Not Going Back- Taya Mâ Shere I am in a category of people who will not be going back to “normal”. As those close to me receive or pursue COVID vaccination, and begin to dream of “returning” – to connection, to work as before if possible, to in-person learning,...
Plop!: On Bashō’s Most Famous Haiku- Clark Strand I have a confession to make that may not go down well in official haiku circles, but I can’t hold it in any longer. It has been fifty years since I first read Bashō’s little poem about the frog jumping into the old...
Haiku and the Art of Play- Clark Strand Every art form has its basics—those fundamental principles, forms, or techniques that must be set in place before you can learn the finer points of the craft. Watch children in any beginning ballet class, and you’ll see them...
Black Horse Wisdom- Linda Kohanov Many people associate the black horse with evil knights and renegades, but this universal archetype represents something more profound than reckless defiance. From the perspective of the Mexican aristocracy, Zorro rode like the devil...
