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Apr.03.2012
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New America Media, Commentary, Andrew Lam, Posted: Apr 03, 2012
Editor’s Note: NAM editor Andrew Lam wrote a slightly different version of this piece in 2009 after...
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Nov.21.2011
Years ago a teacher-friend advised me to never teach material that I was in love with, or that I was personally invested in. You'll only be broken-hearted and let-down when your students are dismissive or, worse yet--bored, she said. I've never really been sure whether I want to believe in...
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Nov.21.2011
Don't worry about civil disobedience when government/authority disobedience comes crushing down on two poets at a protest. Robert Hass was once appointed - by the Librarian of Congress - at the Poet Laureate of The United States of America. No wonder it is best to keep your Trust in God and...
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Nov.02.2011
I ponder all this while I look at my pencil (real with wood and lead) which has its eraser reduced to a nub. It doesn't tempt (nor lead ) me elsewhere.
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Aug.11.2011
It was my first day back to school and as I looked around the room I was feeling pretty confident.
What a sharp contrast from last year. Seventeen of us survived the first year. We are the minority in a sea of new faces. We are recognized as the warriors; survivors of Year One.
During the our...
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Jun.22.2011
I was on my way to a symposium about poetry and religion ... It all began in the shuttle bus from the station to the campus, which was full of girls.
Arnold Jansen op de Haar made the following observations:
Do they only have female students? I wondered. Besides, they were much prettier than thirty...
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May.01.2011
Students Examine Novella by Franz Kafka
Exploring the extraordinary ways in which people manifest and project their sufferings, students from the Literature Institute at Oxnard College will examine "The Metamorphosis" – a novella by Franz Kafka – on May 4.
"Writings of Franz...
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Apr.22.2011
There's a peculiar thing that I didn't mention in the blog I wrote a while ago about how I met Gina. At the time, before I even knew her name, an absolute 'knowing' came over me that I have never been able to explain. It overwhelmed me but was in turn overwhelmed by the fact that I was falling in...
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Apr.08.2011
Two years after the birth of my book, I had quietly come to the unconscious conclusion, that it had finished surprising me. Then went downstairs for today's mail.
Truthfully, I ran down to get my royalty check, which I really need, and it wasn't there, but something better was. Four bulging...
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