A Poem to Ukraine with Love
“Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. By...
Letting go
The beginning of my poem about letting go Black sand beach on the Big Island Was it Kehena Beach? Yes, we were nude, Nude in the great...
My Year of Reading Like Crazy--Sonja Franeta
My Year of Reading—2020 A highlight of the pandemic for me has been the opportunity to read many books, more than usual. I really went to...
Welcome Home
Reading Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi by Sonja Franeta I’ve been reading instead of demonstrating. It’s not that I’ve missed it but I am getting...
12 Queer Reads for Quarantine
12 Queer Books (this year's reading) by Sonja Franeta For quarantine time, here are some lesbian-themed books that I highly recommend,...
Arabic Origins
Today, Columbus Day is being celebrated in Spain—the colonization of the Americas. The lost Spanish empire. Why is Christopher Columbus,...
Upon Watching My Nephew's Film
My nephew, James Camali, is finishing up his movie. It’s called The Mental State. It’s about a teenage boy in the rural South who...
Upon Watching My Nephew's Film
My nephew, James Camali, is finishing up his movie. It’s called The Mental State. It’s about a teenage boy in the rural South who...
The Big Cover Up
Cover Up “We are all African!” said a blond-haired blue-eyed professor named Spencer Wells, a geneticist and anthropologist. He had been...
Immigrants, the gulag, and the Holocaust
I just finished reading The Raven's Children by Yulia Yakovleva and I found many reasons to recommend this book to both young people and...
