Tag: love

  • New Documentary Theater: How We Love

    New Documentary Theater: How We Love

    Guest blog by Lillian Isabella, writer, actor. Over the course of a year I traveled all over New York City interviewing 28 different women about female sexuality. I asked them questions like… How would you describe an orgasm? What makes a great lover? How did your childhood shape your sexuality? I recorded the interviews and…

  • Comorbidity: Expressions of Love

    When does love begin? I have a memory that I think is from before I was born, where everything is dense and fluid pressing up against me like an ocean. From this familiarity and safety, a kind of love may have already begun. And who could deny that babies love their mother, that most intimate…

  • For Mothers Day – Let Me Be a Tree

    For Mothers Day – Let Me Be a Tree

    An excerpt from my novel, American Dream. The character Daniel remembers his mother: “If he could go back in time to when Mother was a child and protect her invisibly throughout her life, he was sure that he would do it. He tried to compose a poem for her during the long ride back. Let…

  • Hot Poems for Summer Solstice: the Samuel Peralta Interview

    Please meet Samuel Peralta, award winning poet and scientist author. At the summer solstice I was thinking of Samuel Peralta’s hot new poems. I know him as “Semaphore”, his twitter persona, where he placed #1 worldwide in the voting for the Best Poetry on Twitter. His “Sonata Vampirica” poem story was released and devoured by…

  • Natural Supernatural Love Poems

    Have you carried unfinished things around with you from place to place, and hoped to make something new out of them? This spring, looking at the two shelves of handwritten, typed, bound, loose and even tattered poems and drawings that I’ve carried from childhood through a dozen moves, I had to do something about it. And…