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Quotations

Sunbeams

Task: to be where I am. / Even when I’m in this solemn and absurd / role: I am still the place / where creation does some work on itself.

Tomas Tranströmer

August 1980

Photography

Faces Of India

The photographs in this selection are available as a PDF only. Click here to download.

By Rameshwar DasFebruary 1979

Poetry

Selected Poems

By Steven Ford BrownJuly 1977

Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

Following through on an attempt to understand white South Africa’s control and manipulation of the Black/Colored/Asian majority is a journey that invokes a logical progression of disbelief sliding to horror, then, finally, a half step beyond to revulsion.

By William GaitherJuly 1977

Fiction

Sex Is Not Strawberry Jam

My thumb was out and Interstate 86 out of Providence, Rhode Island was getting hot. Me and my St. Bernard, Roger, were thumbing across America. It had been a messy morning.

By Karl GrossmanJuly 1976

Poetry