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Poets Are Passing From Our Lives

By Jemmy Bluestein I have a present to give the English-speaking world. It’s a virtually unknown poem of the late, great Fresno poet and former U.S. poet laureate Philip Levine. Though there have [...] Continue Reading

Why Is Recent Film “Too Political”?

By Angela Price As a Board member of the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, I routinely seek films that we might show, films that are “cutting edge,” often beautiful to look at and always provocative. [...] Continue Reading

POETRY CORNER

Poetry Behind Bars The following poems were written by individuals incarcerated in Valley State Prison in Chowchilla. Some of the authors are poetry and drama students from the Alliance for [...] Continue Reading

Spain

By Alex Vavoulis Spain by Nikos Kazantzakis (translated by Amy Mims). Ditros, Athens, 1957; English edition, Simon and Schuster, 1963. Nikos Kazantzakis is one of the great literary figures of the [...] Continue Reading

Review of ART

By Cherylyn Smith The innovative theater company Curtain 5, under the direction of Jerry Palladino, presented ART, by Yasmina Reza, at the Fresno Art Museum in late October. A superlative cast was [...] Continue Reading

Just Mercy

By Maria Telesco Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson. Spiegel & Grau, 348 pages, $15. Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu called him “America’s Nelson [...] Continue Reading

Shenandoah

By George B. Kauffman Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal by Sue Eisenfeld. University of Nebraska Press, $19.95 (paperback). Award-winning writer, hiker and history lover Sue Eisenfeld [...] Continue Reading

John Lewis and Selma in Fresno

By Hannah Brandt Congressional Representative and civil rights leader John Lewis (D–Ga.) was a guest at the Warnors Theatre in downtown Fresno on Aug. 19. A discussion with Lewis' Central Valley [...] Continue Reading