MEDIA FAST FOR MOJTABA

Curt Hopkins

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The Lustration

See a sea of black stone crushed
To white powder at the crest of every
Wave, returned, obsidian, to swell again
With every respiration of the moon.
Hear the crack of thin glass and snap
Of breaking branches, stepping through the grass
Of clearings near abandoned houses on
Wooded coastal bluffs above the ocean.
Smell the salt and bruised mint, the musk
From mats [...]

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COMMITTEE TO PROTECT BLOGGERS CALLS FOR MEDIA FAST

The incredibly wonderful people over at the Committee to Protect Bloggers are calling on us all to observe a media fast next Thursday for Mojtaba Saminejad, the imprisoned Iranian blogger who is on a hunger strike. We shall do so.
Curt Hopkins

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Sacramento Bee Article on Blogging and Employment

The Sacramento Bee has published an article on blogging employment policy. I was interviewed for this article. Although I didn’t make it in the story much of the information I provided did, in particular the survey of employers’ actions toward blogging that was created in response to the aborted article on the topic [...]

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Bloggers Too Parochial

One of the main reasons I got into blogging was to indulge my cosmopolitan inclinations. I figured, wrongly it now turns out, that blogging was more international in outlook than the much-loathed mainstream media. But, according to a study by Ethan Zuckerman at the Berman Center, blogs as a whole make reference to international issues [...]

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MORPHEME TALES IN NATIONAL LAW REVIEW

Morpheme Tales is referenced in an article from the National Law Journal. Unfortunately, it is misidentified as The Committee to Protect Bloggers.

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The Dog Watches: VI. Mexico City

“What, after all, was a consul that we were mindful of him?” — M. Lowry
Life’s a jungle, and only fire and
The blade can keep it off the house—
This he thought, gazing at the belltower—
And the fools among us dare to plan a garden!
And in some time, 30 years or so,
You grow to realize you cannot [...]

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The Dog Watches: V. Excavation

What was I when I was a man?
I can’t recall. Too much time has passed
Since I was torn stemward from the dock
And tossed to Jezreel on that day
The first stone was laid on Megiddo.
Our abecedary flowered in Dor and Tyre.
Across the ocean a metate scraped grain
While apotropaic figurines
Huddled in a cupboard
And folded in to [...]

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Demobbed

See a sea of black stone crushed
To white powder at the crest of every
Wave, returned, obsidian, to swell again
With every respiration of the moon.
Hear the crack of thin glass and snap
Of breaking branches, stepping through the grass
Of clearings near abandoned houses on
Wooded coastal bluffs above the ocean.
Smell the salt and bruised mint, the musk
From mats [...]

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Articles Available for Assignment

I have the following articles available for assignment.
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AFTER THE THUNDER SLEEPS: Seasons of Ceremony Among the Navajo
Ceremonial season among the modern Navajo.
AMONG THE PEOPLES OF THE BOOK: A Journey of Study and Prayer
Work with Sant’Egidio, study at Jewish Theological Seminary, reside in Muslim school.
A BELLROPE IN THE WIND: A Bellrope in the Wind: Poet & [...]

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