by Roberta Hoffman | Nov 22, 2021 | News
JOURNEY MAN A Carpenter’s Story By Daniel Foster BILL AND SHARON There is often a trail from one client to another. It might be a result of working in a neighborhood, where a neighbor learns of me through the visibility of my presence, or it might be the result...
by SICA-USA | Nov 22, 2021 | Events, News
THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED WITH VIDEO OF ZOË LANDALE’S READING. This is a recording of Zoë Landale’s SICA ZoomMuse Poems for Peace poetry reading held on November 18, 2021. This event is part of a monthly series of ZoomMuse Poetry Reading of Poems for...
by Roberta Hoffman | Nov 18, 2021 | News
Song of the blackbird By Emmanuel Williams Bindle lives in a wood in the heart of the English countryside. Bindle is a blackbird. He has black feathers all over his body, a yellow-orange beak, and yellow circles around his eyes. His mate, Benna, has soft, dark brown...
by Roberta Hoffman | Nov 15, 2021 | News
JOURNEY MAN A Carpenter’s Story By Daniel Foster IF NOTHING ELSE The first job I ran in Virginia after going out on my own was a large house in Great Falls. It had already been started and was a completed shell when I first saw it. I had looked at it initially...
by Roberta Hoffman | Nov 8, 2021 | News
JOURNEY MAN A Carpenter’s Story By Daniel Foster FOLLOW THAT TRUCK Deanna and I were married in April. I remember some people thinking it a strange time to be married. It was mud season in Vermont, when the melting snow from 5 months of winter turns the back...
by Roberta Hoffman | Nov 5, 2021 | News
Suklal’s Hunt By Hamilton Pevec During the monsoon of July 2013 my wife, Devika, asked me if I wanted to go to the high country to hunt mushrooms with our brother-in-law, Suklal Gurung. I said yes, of course, and then followed up with: “what mushrooms are we...
by Roberta Hoffman | Nov 1, 2021 | News
JOURNEY MAN A Carpenter’s Story By Daniel Foster FIFTH AVENUE My friend Francois was a member of the family that owned one of the world’s foremost luxury fashion brands, so he moved in high circles. His girlfriend Roberta was remodeling her condo apartment, he...
by SICA-USA | Oct 26, 2021 | News
The Zoomuse project started by unofficial Subud Poet Laureate Emmanuel Williams has merged with the Poems for Peace project, initiated by SICA co-founder Latifah Taormina. The first reading in this merger was given by Andrew Schelling on October 21, 2021. This is now...
by Roberta Hoffman | Oct 25, 2021 | News
JOURNEY MAN A Carpenter’s Story By Daniel Foster BILL FAY AND SAM’S HAMMER Bill Fay was a contractor in West Woodstock, Vermont. His house and shop were just up a dirt road from the Shiretown Lumber yard, for whom I drove a truck and worked as a yardman for a...
by Roberta Hoffman | Oct 18, 2021 | News
JOURNEY MAN A Carpenter’s Story By Daniel Foster TRANSPO 72 In the spring of 1972 I was living on a commune in rural Virginia named Skymont. About 175 of us, including many kids, were living on a former boys camp about 90 minutes west of Washington, D.C. It...
