Here I’ll attach two recent interviews with Richard Powers in a PDF format that makes them easy to print out and read with pen in hand, which always enlivens the experience for me: 1] Everett. Hamner, “Here’s to Unsuicide: An Interview with Richard Powers,” Los Angeles Review of Books (7 April 2018). at http://lareviewofbooks.org/article/heres-to-unsuicide-an-interview-with-richard-powers . […]
Continue reading →Dear friends and colleagues, The Mount Tam circumambulation story, woven together with a personal essay and other walks, is live! Thanks to all of you who kindly gave me time and stories, and my production partner Grace Cathedral San Francisco for selecting me as their first podcaster in residence, and giving me the support to […]
Continue reading →Professor Qionglin “Joan” Tan, Yingying “Hannah” Deng, and I visited Gary Snyder at Kitkitdizze on 8 February 2019. There we caught up on news from the Center for Gary Snyder Studies Joan founded at Hunan University in 2015. Joan, Gary, Hannah (8Feb19) Professor Tan’s advisee, Ms. Deng, a Changsha native, is enjoying a dissertation research year at UC Berkeley. Gary […]
Continue reading →Thanks to Paul Nelson for reading and thinking with A Sense of the Whole, as noted here: https://www.paulenelson.com/2018/07/27/notes-on-a-sense-of-the-whole-reading-mark-gonnerman-reading-gary-snyder/
Continue reading →As i begin to make my contribution as Founding Humanities Teacher at the Academy of Thought and Industry (ATI) in San Francisco, i am excited by the prospect of turning San Francisco into a fieldwork site for young urban students of the human sciences. I will be leading a discussion about this on Sunday, July 1 from 10:00–12:00 noon: Here’s where […]
Continue reading →Here is the handout i created for a breakout session at the inspirational “Becoming Cascadian” retreat hosted by Paul Nelson and Bhakti Watts in the Cedar River Watershed on the shore of Lake Washington this past May 31–June 3. Becoming Cascadian Handout MG V.18 Our time together featured presentations by Andrew Schelling and Tetsuzen Jason Wirth, who took us into an in-depth […]
Continue reading →Kazuaki Tanahashi kindly sent me his latest book from Shambhala Press: a retrospective review of his paintings accompanied by stories that invite the reader to become better acquainted with the good life of this wandering Berkeley-based artivist (activist artist). Kaz’s book contains a chapter about his painting, Bristle Cone Pine, two scrolls that played a key role in our Mountains & Rivers Workshop. The […]
Continue reading →Mark Gonnerman was interviewed by Denis Punegov, the founding editor of the St. Petersburg journal, Svyazi, about teaching beat culture and literature and his experience with this at Hunan University in China. You may download the PDF of this article via the link below: Svyazi Beats Interview Gonnerman Sept 2017 PDF Denis Punegov, “War For Imagination [Interview on the […]
Continue reading →Read Mark Gonnerman’s review of Gary Snyder’s This Present Moment in: Mark Gonnerman, “Both Sides Now: On Gary Snyder’s This Present Moment,” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 30/2 (2017): 88–92. Available via this link.
Continue reading →Alan Williamson calls A Sense of the Whole “an extraordinary book” in his review essay in Western American Literature. See: Alan Williamson, “A Language for Vast Space,” Western American Literature 50/4 (Winter 2015), 375–79. Available via this link: Williamson_Review_ASOTW_WAL 2015
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