Category: and so it goes

• When You Challenge Conventional Wisdom

  Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system is the only possible one—the first reaction you are likely to get…

• Midwest Brain Drain

  Once, I’m told, the alluvial soil was deep and generous here, and the seed knew its way and took root with abandon, eager to send…

• We Need to Be Unstoppable

  The future is bigger than our imaginations. It’s unimaginable, and then it comes anyway. To meet it we need to keep going, to walk past…

• Obvious to You

  I’ll bet even John Coltrane or Richard Feynman felt that everything they were playing or saying was pretty obvious. So maybe what’s obvious to me is amazing to someone else? Hit…

• Foreign Land

  “It is difficult to commit to living where we are, how we are. It is difficult and it is necessary. In order to make art,…

• Road Trip

  There’s nothing like a road trip, miles upon miles of landing strip for your soul to come down out of the clouds, the fog of…

• A Living Wage

  One benefit of being a poet is in knowing it will never pay a living wage. This relieves me of enormous pressure to be a…

• What’s on the Label

  All that is packaged as honey is not honey. This is what they told us on the news this week. They told us something similar…

• I Hear the World is Falling Apart

  I see the maps of shrinking glaciers, images of polar bears on tiny ice floes. I see food prices rising in my supermarket. Lettuce is…

• As a General Rule

  “I have an ipod” refers to a thing you own. “I have a child,” or a spouse, or a dog, implies a relationship, a mutuality between sovereigns.…