Admit Absence
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In This Room
Author’s Note: This week’s post concerns historical violence. I have tried to treat this topic with accuracy and respect for victims.
Occupation and Resistance in Lithuania
Lithuania is a small Baltic country sandwiched betwee...
What the Leper Saw
Christ as the Beggar (Rome, 2025)
. . . he afflicted Job with a malignant ulcer from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. Job took a shard of broken pottery to scrape himself with while he was sitting among the ashes.
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Republic of Letters
Multilingual Bookstore (Óbidos, Port.)
Republic of Letters
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Golden Gate at the infinite mouth
breathing the sailboats of Sausalito
i...
Peter Pan
Night Woods (Sintra, 2025)
When I was a child, my community’s rites of passage included taking adolescents into the woods and leaving them alone to pass the night with neither fire nor light. Now, decades later, as I reflect upon th...
Choosing
Night Walk (Istanbul, 2026)
Choosing
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Wisdom is not a platitude
but a frog that expects to be eaten
and so, in defiance of nothing...
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Joe is a poet, storyteller, and teacher focused on applying wisdom to contemporary crisis. He has a PhD in English from the Johns Hopkins University.
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