This is a poem that started out as a Twitter post, but grew into something quite different. I offer it to you with all due apologies to Lewis Carroll , whose Alice I've always admired and whose credit I've repaid poorly here. My Alice By Francis..
Topics: Poetry, writing

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After the last long-winded and prosaic post about the movie FRESH , a return to sparser verse and the next installment of my poem Two Souls . I may yet however revisit the idea of "monocultures" within a different context. Two Souls, Twin Lives.
Topics: mythology, Poetry, writing

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Last night, I had the pleasure of watching a thought-provoking new food documentary: FRESH by ana Sofia joanes. There are two characteristics that make the film particularly interesting. First, there is its depiction of a new breed of farmers from...
Topics: agriculture, documentary, Film, food politics, Fresh, industrial farming

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This is the second illustration I've done for my poem Argus & Io . It depicts the nymph Io as both woman and cow. I like the way I interpreted her bovine side much better.
Topics: Art, drawing, greek myth, illustration

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As I may have mentioned on this blog before, I've been working with some friends to get a small newspaper off the ground here in Rogers Park, the Chicago community where I live. We're still growing and improving after 7 months of learning on the..
Topics: humor, newspaper

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