Question by Nawaz Sharif, former prime minister of Pakistan, upon his visit to Benazir Bhutto's gravesite. The full article is here . Mo...

This slide show is from the NY Times.

News reports from Pakistan and elsewhere confirm that 54-year-old Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in Pakistan. The NY Times report...

Here's today's random draw from the I Ching: 59. Huan / Dispersion [Dissolution] Commentary below (from deoxy.org with gender-speci...

8:45am Eastern Time. Jacksonville, FL. Outside my window, the squirrel is holding a pecan in its gloved claws and chipping away at the husk....

Congrats to my fellow Scarlet Tanagers for the publication of issue two of The Sylvan Echo . Editors Mel Jones, Barbara Simpson, Andreanana ...

The prospect of merit pay in the teaching field is a can of worms. But it's an issue that continually pops up on the campaign trail, spa...

Earlier this week, I participated in the first International Poetry Reading and Reception at the community college where I work. I originall...

Up early this morning and skipping from (mostly poetry) blog to blog. Here's what I've found worth reading: On the benefits of repet...

I ran across one of those quickie blog ratings and put mine through the test. According to The Blog Readability Test , my blog is at the lev...

BLACK FRIDAY ten Mourning Doves flurry across the flagstones, dust-speckled wings, something god-like in their descent. A grey s quirrel sc...

Click image, feed your mind & feed others, grain by grain.

Nov. 5, 2007 Natural Surrounding The shrimp plant outside my window is a forest to the ants circling below, driven by innate regimen to surv...

Has anyone participated in the Genographic Project sponsored by National Geographic? If so, what kind of surprising results?

This National Geographic video traces the path of hominids, beginning around 195,000 years ago in the Omo River Valley in Ethiopia. It...

Starting the month with a haiku: Nov.2, 2007 Restless needle - thought winding in and out, a bee without honey. Uniform Days When we went Do...

Thanks to Julie R. Enszer who posted these two poems by Jane Cooper. Cooper was born in Jacksonville, FL, my hometown. Being Southern 1 It...

These strangers in a foreign world protection asked of me; befriend them, lest yourself in heaven be found a refugee. Caveat : Emily's ...

I've been working on an anthology of student writing - and emerged from the obsession of page formatting yesterday to recognize a strata...

well it sounds hokey even to me but when November rolls around, I recall the unfinished mss ("The Cottage") that I started a few y...

Obituary Jane M. Cooper, Poet, 1924-2007 Jane Marvel Cooper, poet, Professor and Poet-in-Residence Emerita at Sarah Lawrence College, died p...

"Om Mani Padme Hum" The Meditative Sounds of Buddhists Chants CD.

as I begin my critical paper...

well it's 1:20am EST - time for most people to be sleeping in my time zone, especially if we share Monday morning work rituals. But I...

65 Polish nuns, defrocked by the Vatican, were evicted from their convent by police in riot gear. According to a spokesperson for the Cathol...

If you'd like to read any of my previous Red Hibiscus blog posts, you can find them all here : http://redhibiscus05.blogspot.com/ The f...

I suppose it was bound to happen: my gmail account was compromised and as a result, I have permanently lost access to my email and to my blo...

Speaking of anthologies, Larry Ziman sent an invite to my email the other day, promoting the Great American Poetry Anthology. What's thi...

Thanks to Denise at the New Pages blog for bringing up the question of anthology merit . Although I couldn't find the responses, she did...

Praying from Mary Oliver, Spiritus 6 (2006). It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small sto...