by Sharon Heath | Jan 12, 2012 | Blog
When I was a green girl of fifteen, I was first introduced to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. I’ve written elsewhere of the numinosity of that introduction, but I didn’t mention that one of the poems that most intrigued me was this one: BEGINNERS How they are provided...
by Sharon Heath | Aug 8, 2011 | Blog
On a routine Saturday morning earlier this year, I opened my L.A. Times and began my ritual of absorbing the news along with my breakfast. Most of what I read was far less digestible than my eggs and toast: Egypt’s Mubarak was refusing to step down; a suicide bomber...