The December podcast of my Booknotes series on WBJC
The tradition of Jolabokaflod is relatively new to me, but it's one I adore. Every year since World War II, when paper was one of the few things not rationed in Iceland, Icelanders have given books for Christmas. On Christmas Eve, they exchange books and then sit in...
Winter Newsletter 2021
“Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.” ― Haruki Murakami Picking up the theme of a recent blog post, Concentric circles within the Baltimore writing community, my starting point for this seasonal...
Concentric circles within the Baltimore writing community
Rafe Posey was a name I heard when I was pursuing my MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts at the University of Baltimore—though his concentration was fiction, whereas mine (at that stage) was creative nonfiction—and so I was interested to see his name pop up...
Carefully venturing into art exhibitions again …
"It was your work that filled my life." Etta Cone to Henri Matisse, 1948 Listen to curator, Katy Rothkopf, cover these marvelous exhibitions in four minutes by clicking on the link below!...
Marking Juneteenth
Juneteenth—or Jubilee Day, Black Independence Day, Emancipation Day—has been marked since June 19, 1866; the first anniversary of General Order No. 3 that Union General Gordon Granger issued on June 19, 1865. The Order conveyed the news of the Emancipation...
An Evening in Conversation with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Dr. James Lee III is a composer with a strong connection to Baltimore. He is a Professor of Music at Morgan State University, and the Baltimore Symphony has played and commissioned a number of his works, including Chuphshah! Harriet’s Drive to Canaan, Fantasy on the...
Summer Newsletter 2021
Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance. ― Yoko Ono Fun Fact: Yoko Ono became a permanent resident of the...
Immigrants: What We Carry With Us
What a gift to hear someone else read your words—especially when that someone else has a voice like Jon Shorr. Thank you, Passager Books, for sharing my words! Please click on play below.
Spring Newsletter
Spring Newsletter I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older. ― Virginia Woolf I hope you're continuing to keep safe and sane as we look forward to a change of season. During the months of quarantining—that are about to...
Winter Newsletter
“History says don’t hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed for tidal wave Of justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme.” — Seamus Heaney And so, we find ourselves in the final month of this annus horribilis—and since we've just...
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