Daily Archives: May 20, 2006

Plug

I want to put in another plug for the Online School of Poetry, and specifically for the course I’ll be teaching there starting on June 11.

I’ll be teaching a course on taking personal and political work to the next level. I’m really excited about this.

In order to run this course, I’ve got to recruit at least six students. I know that 200 bucks seems like a lot of money for a course, especially to the world of impecunious poets, but in truth I think that’s pretty reasonable for an eight week online workshop.

The school in general is a cool idea — it’s got a great faculty (and I’m not just saying that because I’m on it) including Tom Daley, Patricia Smith, Regie Gibson, and Quincy Troupe.

Please go check out the course descriptions and if you can’t do it yourself, pass it on to anyone you think might be interested.

Thanks in advance.


Jim Talks About Diversity

Ask us about heroes
and you may see us smile
a bit differently than you do.

Your drinks are just drinks.
Your bets are just bets, at least
if they make us happy.

When we smoke now
it’s no more a ritual
than when you do.

A sweat lodge
is still our place. You come in
as naked tourists.

Long hair and leather
is lovely on some people,
childish on others.

Your spirit animals
live in a zoo, and ours
watch them from outside the bars.

There’s a gap
between a dream
and a dreamcatcher.

Owning a dreamcatcher
does not mean
you have a dream.


if everything is important, nothing is.