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Clip: Church Hopping: Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes
A car packed with teenagers was speeding down the street at the exact moment we were approaching the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes on foot. It was an unseasonably warm October day in 2011, and the...
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My Year in Review: 2012
What a full year 2012 was! Here’s a quick little recap::: In January I announced that the rumors were true. But it took the full year for it to finally look like this. In February I joined Pinterest to...
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Happy 169th Birthday, Saint Bernadette!
Saint Marie-Bernarde Soubirous was born on this day in 1844 in Lourdes, France. She saw a vision of Mother Mary, who spoke to her in Gascon, which is now an endangered language. The visions inspired...
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The Light Holds Harvey Shapiro
I have just learned that Harvey Shapiro passed away yesterday. Shapiro, whose first language was the endangered language of Yiddish, is the person who suggested Martin Luther King, Jr., compose a...
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What a Garifuna-Breton Party Has to Do with Jack Kerouac
photo via ELA After a short hiatus for renovations and new partnership, Bowery Poetry is back—dropping “Club” from its title—and they’re hosting a Garifuna-Breton party! I’ve posted before about...
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Clip: Trading Text for Visuals: Poets As Visual Artists
I had a really fun time putting together an article for Burnside about poets who are also visual artists. From the time I was a little child, I have been drawn to both the literary and visual arts...
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Happy 161st Birthday, Antoni Gaudi!
Antoni Gaudi, Catalan architect of insanely intricate, bone-like structures, was born on this day in 1852. When I was backpacking through Europe, I stopped by his La Sagrada Familia. You can read...
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Photos from the 2013 New York City Poetry Festival
I feel incredibly honored to have been invited to read at the 2013 New York City Poetry Festival. I had such a blast hearing so many great poets read at last year’s festival, and it never occurred to...
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Nikolopoulos Revives Homer’s Poetic Language
The National Herald featured me! In the article, I talk about “dead” languages, that great Greek roadtripper Homer, and Scripps College. Filed under: Endangered Languages, Greekish, Writing Tagged:...
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Friday Links: The UK & Beat Generation Connection
Hope you’ve enjoyed the week we spent exploring the connection between the UK and the Beat Generation! Do you like these sorts of thematic weeks? I thought I’d kick off your weekend with a few related...
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Kuros Charney’s “The Humanist” Questions the Value of the Humanities
My friend and I attended Kuros Charney‘s play “The Humanist” the other night, and it resonated ever so profoundly. Here’s the synopsis: A comedy about the corporatization of higher education. When his...
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