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Psychedelic Monologues: Evolver Baltimore
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Come join Evolver Baltimore for a night of community stories and discussion on psychedelics. JHU researchers will also be joining us!

Into the Living Mandala
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I wasn't thinking about mandalas when the trip began. But it's only through the interplay of the outer and inner mandala – microcosm and macrocosm interconnected – expressed as self and family, community and world, that I can make any sense of the chaos that unfurled that night.

Kickstart the BNote
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Evolver Baltimore would love for you to help us raise money to print the BNote, Baltimore's first regional currency.

Give It Up Again in Baltimore
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Join Evolver Baltimore for the second anniversary of "Give It UP!," a night of music, art, and dancing that celebrates the rise of gift cultures and economies.

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Home: a movie review? Language Constructs, Ever-present Origin, and Scintillating Sentiences

I’m going to go on a journey here— hopefully, a journey that dissolves a bit of this notion that my I is somehow separate from your You, you a separate autonomous reader reading the object that is this text. This journey is both one of exploration and dissolution, and it begins with a film called Home.

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Hummingbird Sutra

vibration surrenders to vibration
cloistered living room of holy, holy- stiff, starch, white
pursed lips- halo O
prayer books pressed in palms obedient

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Rhizomorphing Thoughts

“I’m here to disappear, “I’ve said… The writing confirms the fragility and unbearable beauty of our existence. Its purpose isn’t immortality. It’s more complex and interesting than that. It’s discovering life at the edge of death, all the time.”

Anne Waldman

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Poem- On the Yin Frontier

On the Yin Frontier

Baby heads float above enlightened Buddha stem, neck the truncated conduit of terra cotta stability

The yin frontier is the interior, narrow road to, it’s home before the conquering tribe rolls in, and then it’s the union of flesh after the surge of yang when the Celts ate the hearts of their admired enemies

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Adam like an atom ricochet-naming

I was working on am essay/poem about the yin frontier, and I found myself writing this instead....

Adam like an atom ricochet-naming

Bird, shin, breath, bee
Brain, radio, invisible, electricity

Earth, air, man, beast, fire, cardinal, wing, beak,
flesh, skin, breath, breast, stomach, orchid, bee,
hope, box, lock, key, he, she, home, village,

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Atom Bomb Update and Thoughts on the Nature of Dreams and Nightmares

Today, I’ve been living and breathing beside atom bomb dreams. I’ve been researching, writing emails, and even one proposal in an effort to begin to lay the groundwork for a creative project that I mentioned in my last post.

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Thoughts on "The Atomic Cafe," Atom Bomb Dreams, and the Urgency of Uniting Communities

So last night I watched the documentary, "The Atomic Café." For those who haven’t seen it, it’s a loose documentary, a compilation of footage from American atom bomb propaganda, set to period songs of the time like “Atomic Cocktail.” The film has this upbeat, end of the war, jubilant swing juxtaposed beside the gross devastations leveled on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Ursula K. Le Guin - On The Frontier

I just stumbled across this passage in my search for poem cut-up material. Too amazing not to share...

Ursula K. Le Guin
The Wave in the Mind: Talks And Essays on The Writer, The Reader, And The Imagination
Shambhala: Boston, 2004

THE FRONTIER

A frontier has two sides. It is an interface, a threshold, a liminal site, with all the danger and promise of liminality.

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"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders

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About Me

Bio

The two words that I most identify myself with are poet and teacher. In 2006, I completed a low-residency MFA with Naropa University, and my poetics often lean toward the experimental.I also teach composition to college freshman at Towson University and the University of Baltimore. I've been living in Baltimore the last two years and claim here as my native city. I've also lived in Osaka, Japan and Belfast, N. Ireland.

Skills and talents
Hmm, I'm a decent editor and writer. I have a strong eye for photography (though I'm not as much blessed with those precise technical skills). Actually, I tend to excel more on the interpersonal side of things. A dysfunctional, turned strangely fortuitous, upbringing seems to have imbued me with a lot of resilience, buoyancy, and drive to evolve.
What I'm Reading
Currently, it's Philip Whalen's Overtime. Other important books are Technicians of the Sacred edited by Jerome Rothenberg, anything by Michael Pollan, Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine, Sei Shonagon's The Pillow Book, Civil Disobediences edited by Anne Waldman and Lisa Birman.... the list goes on
What I'm Listening To
Alice Coltrane, Andrew Bird, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, any kind of Calypso, Devendra Banhardt, Ethipioques, Garmarna, Gil Scott-Heron, Jeff Buckley, Patti Smith, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Tom Waits
Movies I've Seen Recently
In the last couple of months, I've seen Frost/Nixon, Milk, Persepolis, Synecdoche New York, Tekkonkinkreet, Waltz with Bashir, Watchmen
Websites I'm Into
not enough night, Post Secret, Tickle Torture, Babel Fish

Education

College
Towson University
Graduate school
Naropa University
Additional study
University of Ulster - Belfast

Work

Employer
University of Baltimore
Position
academic adviser