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Newsflash! Issue #6 of PENSIVE Has Been Published and Includes My Poem, “Echoing Damocles”

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Pensive, published twice a year by Center for Spirituality, Dialogue, and Service (CSDS) at Northeastern University in Boston, is currently accepting submissions for its fifth issue. The deadline is May 15, 2023. If you would like to read this issue, you maybe read it online or download a pdf. file at no charge.

There are dozens of wonderful poems here, as well as sublime fiction (including “The Dervish in a Red Skirt” by Fiyola Hoosen-Steele), and the visual art is amazing (I am especially taken with the cover image, a mixed media piece called “Exile II” by Silvina Mizrahi, and the painting, “Ghost Bison,” by Serge Lecomte.)

Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality & the Arts is a young publication with a strong and nourishing, cross-cultural point of view. I am so pleased that my own poem, “Echoing Damocles,” (page 154) was chosen to be in this company!

Itasca State Park (Photo: Leslie Schultz)

Newsflash! PENSIVE: A GLOBAL JOURNAL OF SPIRITUALITY AND THE ARTS Has Just Published Issue #4 and Includes My Poem, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Koan”

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Pensive Issue 4 Cover Page

The newest issue of the young journal, Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts is now published. It can be read online, or downloaded as a pdf for free. My own poem, inspired by Wallace Stevens koanic classic, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” can be found on pages 42-43. I am thrilled to have my work, especially this poem, included in this journal.

Pensive, published twice a year by Center for Spirituality, Dialogue, and Service (CSDS) at Northeastern University in Boston, is currently accepting submissions for its fifth issue. The deadline is May 15, 2022.

My Pensive Kitchen Window

Newsflash! I Will Be Reading My Poem, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Koan,” at the PENSIVE Launch on April 21, 2022–Attendance in Person or on Zoom

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I am very excited to be included in the pages of the fourth issue of Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts. The journal was launched in 2020 as a project of the Center for Spirituality, Dialogue, and Service of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. The link will take you to the home page, and from there you can look at the first three back issues. That issue will be published on Friday, April 22, 2022. The evening before Pensive is holding a hybrid launch party, and I was honored to be asked to participate by reading my poem, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Koan.” If you would like to tune in, the link to the Zoom event is: https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/99958817522 or you can use the QR code above.

(Please note that the times listed are U.S. Eastern Standard Time.)