My friend Joshua Sullivan is a Lutheran minister, an artist, a music maker and an archivist -- and newly a dad. We met at in divinity school, where we had many conversations about the struggle of deciding between art/ poetry and (for him) religious vocation. I have sometimes envied his sense of calling, however tortured … Continue reading Rustle VV conversation →

To strip language (Simone Weil, Fanny Howe, Kay Ryan)To make it hold (Kay Ryan)To make it whole To make it holy (or know that it is, already) To slow it downTo slow downTo forget it To remember the bodyTo let the body speak To mishear (and misread)To practice To decontaminate it (M. NourbeSe Philip)To grind … Continue reading A list of infinitives (during a week of miraculous virtual encounters with Martina Evans, Raymond Antrobus, Colette Bryce and Cathy Sweeney) →