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This week, Kenya has their elections. Much respect for Kenyans who faced long line-ups to cast their vote: ..and made it meaningful, truly Kenyan: The reality is, there is extreme poverty and unemployment in the day to day life of … Continue reading →

Toronto Star Books Section Saturday October 24 very honourrrred… –> support independent CDN publishers/bookstores = that support local CDN & Indigenous authors:  & honoured to be invited to International Festival of Authors Toronto this year: a little interview, click: looking forward to Words Aloud 2015 … Continue reading →

Two baby orphans at the elephant orphanage in Nairobi. They’re both small. The little fellow on the right – less than 4 feet tall. At the orphanage just two months, he was very quiet.  He stared at the ground most of the … Continue reading →

Jambo. In Kenya with my first book of poetry: Sword Dance (Exile, awesome publisher)

Monday, June 22, 6:00 pm Windup Bird Café  382 College Street, Toronto

I keep missing Detroit, so I’m back. In the empty lot – a place not natural, but wild – among the trash of human absence, the slough and shamble of the city’s seasons, a few old locusts bloom. (Wendell Berry, … Continue reading →