White was sitting behind the cash register in the basement of Stones and Water, the most upmarket bookshop in Dublin at the time. It was a Wednesday evening, and, while he leafed through a very expensive coffee table book by Robert Parker, on the wines of Bordeaux, he couldn’t help but keep an eye on the proceedings above his head.
Been having a long conversation about soup of late (with my mama)
Chatted about what to wear in a revolution (with Pablo Neruda)
Asked for tips about how to survive an attack of invading aliens (with Isaac Asimov)
and what to do in the event of a fascist takeover (with Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
She stands at the microphone and says civility is
needed in politics. But that is not enough. She
goes on to say that insanity has taken over human-
ity. The audience erupts with laughter. Corrupt
police officers burst in and arrest her with hand-
cuffs. She lingers in jail for days without bail.
By James Eret
The Importance of Arts, Culture & The Creative Process
It is of upmost importance to integrate education in the Arts on the world stage.
What was the inspiration for your creative work?
I was inspired by a composer and painter.
Tell us something about the natural world that you love and don’t wish to lose. What are your thoughts on the kind of world we are leaving for the next generation?
I was inspired by the Monarch Butterfies at Santa Cruz
Night: it's a bird; night bird, bird call.
Screaming at night?
What fades into the great dark, almost black
echo of gesture without answer
all the soul of the day is swallowed up in the siphon of these very slow hours.
Was it the full-length mirror in the tacky-posh hotel
that held us naked in its flourished golden frame,
or maybe the slick white dresser and rococo headboard
lined with plush pillows, or the black and silver
wallpaper stripes that ran from floor to ceiling
like a cage lit by moon in a darkness held at bay
beyond this room where the loud chandelier
Le PeTiT CiRqUe, created by Natalie Yves Gauthier has headlined the Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo Norway, performed for the Dalai Lama, the consultant of Renée, royalty, the Olympic Committee, and is performing for the United Nations for the year of the quantum in March 2025.
– After the wall fell there could be Union and in this way a decision – was made from older Directives to protect birds and ecosystems
How old was the first Bird Directive? Very old old as the hills and man- datory for any member state to conclude
that humans transform the earth we live on:
Interfere in its cycles of evolution, its equilibriums Question the costs of the changes we trigger Ignore the economic consequences of inaction
We weren't meant
to be together – not like that. But we’ll always
be together, I’ll always love you. And keep writing.
Finish this virus book. You owe it to yourself,
to me, and to everyone who’s been moved,
and inspired by your poems. Don't be shy. Don't hide.
Write. Put it out there. Do it for me. Do as I did:
Put yourself out there One Hundred Percent.
While you’re still alive. After that, you can’t.
That autumn, we sat by the ocean
eating oysters from another
ocean, flags along the shore
warning of bad water.
By then, we were used
to wearing masks,
hand sanitizer scaling
the tops of our hands.
Morning. Alone by the water. Walking through dreams seeming
to mean nothing in this waking. Water still as ever. Absent
the slightest breeze. Little birds skittering
over the tiny harbor bed islands, revealed, abandoned
only by low tide, as if they fear disturbing what I wish
into this picture perfect mirror: Two suns.
What it was like to read those pages – the drunken
wagoneer in the act of beating his mare, body-self
with distressing dark streaks appearing
in my underwear – “Becoming a woman”— were
there three words I hated more – my mother, her doe eyes
During the mid-1960s and the early Chicano Movement, Mexican Americans suffered under racial discrimination and were exploited as cheap labor. Lacking a well-developed analysis and social critique for their American lives, they faced social marginalization, had a weak claim on civil liberties, and had no clear path forward toward economic success.
Each of us has to make an effort to help save the planet.
MERCHAND
I must prepare the space quickly.
(Merchand points or stamps her staff toward the ground. Downstage, light spreads out, like a puff of breath, revealing a blanket and upon it, a banquet of sweet fruits and rich foods. Unseen to Merchand, Glimm, a very changeable fairy spirit, enters stealthily.)
The Creative Process: Podcast Interviews & Portraits of the World’s Leading Authors & Creative Thinkers
Inspiring Students – Encouraging Reading - Connecting through Stories
The Creative Process exhibition is traveling to universities and museums. The Creative Process exhibition consists of interviews with over 100 esteemed writers, including Joyce Carol Oates, Hilary Mantel, Neil Gaiman, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Tobias Wolff, Richard Ford, Junot Díaz, Marie Darrieussecq, Michel Faber, T.C. Boyle, Jay McInerney, George Saunders, Geoff Dyer, Etgar Keret, Douglas Kennedy, Sam Lipsyte, and Yiyun Li, among others. Artist and interviewer: Mia Funk.
