White Crane - Gay Culture & Wisdomtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-4863372009-07-29T02:03:50-04:00White Crane is a gay journal magazine dedicated to exploring Gay wisdom, culture & spirituality. Reader written gay perspective on writing, film, media, spirituality and religion. Founded in 1989 it remains one of the oldest publication dedicated to Gay thought and experience.TypePadWC80 Music & Poetry Issuetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345161a069e2011572444654970b2009-07-29T02:03:50-04:002009-07-29T02:10:11-04:00White Crane Issue #80 Music & Poetry Hi Friends! Below are excerpts from our latest issue! Please understand that we rely on the support of subscribers to keep going. So, subscribe today and keep the conversation going! Consider giving a...EditorsWC80 - Editor's Notetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345161a069e20115724441d7970b2009-07-29T01:31:29-04:002009-07-29T01:48:13-04:00By Dan Vera It’s hard not to take a defensive crouch when writing an introductory essay to a special issue on poetry and music. Truth be told, the defensiveness has more to do with the poetry than the music. Music...EditorsWC80 - James White Poetry Prize - Finalisttag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345161a069e2011572443dd5970b2009-07-29T01:18:25-04:002009-07-29T01:18:25-04:00James Najarian Finalist for the 2009 White Crane / James White Poetry Prize Travelogue by James Najarian Our travel papers are seldom in order. We lack a visa, or the proper stamps. More often than not, we're stopped at the...EditorsWC80 - James White Poetry Prize - Winnertag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345161a069e20115714fdad4970c2009-07-29T01:18:18-04:002009-07-29T01:18:18-04:00James Nawrocki Winner of the 2009 White Crane / James White Poetry Prize His winning manuscript House Fire will be published by White Crane Books. House Fire by James Nawrocki It seems too staged, too weirdly poetic this way, the...EditorsWC80 - James White Poetry Prize - Finalisttag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345161a069e20115714fdaa4970c2009-07-29T01:17:37-04:002009-07-29T01:18:22-04:00Jeremy Halinen Finalist for the 2009 White Crane / James White Poetry Prize Afternoons Above I-5 by Jeremy Halinen We used to drop acid and sit on the overpass to watch the dragon faces the cars would make at us...EditorsWC90 - Arthur Evans - Come, Creator Spirittag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345161a069e20115714fd2b6970c2009-07-29T01:00:15-04:002009-07-29T01:00:15-04:00Come, Creator Spirit By Rabanus Maurus, Translation from the Latin by Arthur Evans Come, Creator Spirit, Visit the minds of your people. Fill with grace from above The hearts that you have made. You, who are called the Inspirer, Gift...EditorsWC80 - Arthur Evans on The Creative Universetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345161a069e2011572443258970b2009-07-29T00:57:06-04:002009-07-29T00:57:06-04:00The Creative Universe by Arthur Evans IN THE 9TH CENTURY, a learned Benedictine abbot of Fulda, in what is today called Germany, wrote a memorable hymn in Latin. It has inspired many subsequent thinkers and artists, including Mozart and Mahler....EditorsWC80 - David Del Tredici Interviewedtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345161a069e2011572442ded970b2009-07-29T00:48:54-04:002009-07-29T00:49:18-04:00A White Crane Conversation Gay Orpheus Ray Warman Speaks with David Del Tredici Generally recognized as the father of the Neo-Romantic movement in music, David Del Tredici – over a compositional career spanning five decades and (stronger than ever!) still...EditorsWC80 - Cleo Creech - Poem for Jaheem Herreratag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345161a069e2011572442988970b2009-07-29T00:41:05-04:002009-07-29T00:41:44-04:00A Poem for Jaheem Herrera The Peace of Gentle Waves By Cleo Creech This is our child, if not by blood then by heart and spirit. We hold him close as we must all children as we must hold all...EditorsWC80 Updraftstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345161a069e2011572442659970b2009-07-29T00:34:40-04:002009-07-29T01:22:25-04:00Updrafts Edited by Dan Vera Help these boys build a nation of their own. Ransack the histories for clues to their past. Plunder the literature for words they can speak. And should you encounter an ancient tribe whose customs, however...EditorsWC80 - Andrew Ramer's Praxistag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345161a069e20115714fbdde970c2009-07-29T00:25:25-04:002009-07-29T00:25:45-04:00Animal, Vegetable, Mineral By Andrew Ramer Earth spins and wobbles. Landmasses drift, shudder, slam into each other. Waves hiss, thunder, and crash. Wind whips through trees, whispers through grass. Rain patters, thunder rumbles, ice cracks. Rivers rush, streams babble. Animals...EditorsWC80 - Dreamtime's Didgeridoo…a danceable world journeytag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345161a069e20115714fb711970c2009-07-29T00:14:05-04:002009-07-29T00:15:29-04:00Didgeridoo… a danceable world journey Dreamtime, Etherean Music, Inc. 2000 Reviewed by Bo Young I admit to a fascination with “World Music.” I still think of myself as a drummer, even though I haven’t sat in a drummer’s circle or...EditorsWC80 - Review of Ed Madden's Signalstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345161a069e2011572441aa6970b2009-07-29T00:13:47-04:002009-07-29T00:13:47-04:00Signals By Ed Madden The University of South Carolina Press 69 pages, $14.95 ISBN: 1570037507 Reviewed by Dan Vera Ed Madden teaches English and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina. He’s also a hell of a...EditorsWC80 - Our Caribbeantag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345161a069e201157244185c970b2009-07-29T00:09:29-04:002009-07-29T00:09:29-04:00Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles Edited and with an introduction by Thomas Glave Duke University Press $24.95 ISBN-10: 082234226X, 416 pages Edited by Thomas Glave Reviewed by Dan Vera A collection like Our...EditorsWC79 Steve Susoyev Interviews George Birimisatag:typepad.com,2003:post-652527232009-04-09T00:07:00-04:002009-04-08T23:00:24-04:00A White Crane Conversation The Caffe Cino Steve Susoyev Speaks with the Pioneering Gay Playwright George Birimisa about his Journey to Love. George Birimisa turned 84 in February of this year. A Caffe Cino pioneer, he is recognized as one...EditorsWC79 - Queer Spirit in Salt Lake Citytag:typepad.com,2003:post-652523092009-04-09T00:05:00-04:002009-04-08T23:41:56-04:00White Crane Conversation Queer Spirit in Salt Lake City Gay Sanctuary Among the Mormons Corey Taylor talks with Jerry Buie about Building Gay Sanctuary Corey Taylor: Why did you choose rural Utah as your setting for the Queer Spirit Retreat?...EditorsWC79 Jay Michaelson on the Sanctuary of Spirittag:typepad.com,2003:post-652526472009-04-09T00:04:00-04:002009-04-08T23:45:35-04:00Loneliness and the Sanctuary of Spirit By Jay Michaelson I’m an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas, but not afraid to speak my lonesomeness... because it’s not only my lonesomeness, It’s ours, all over America, O tender...EditorsWC79 - Easton Mountaintag:typepad.com,2003:post-652525392009-04-09T00:03:00-04:002009-04-08T23:45:27-04:00Holding Sanctuary My Experiment at Easton Mountain and the Call to Community By John Stasio The seeds for Easton Mountain were planted in my psyche as far back as my college years when I lived in a student community committed...EditorsWC79 - Sanctuarytag:typepad.com,2003:post-652542112009-04-09T00:01:00-04:002009-04-09T00:04:57-04:00White Crane Issue #79 Winter 2008/09 Sanctuary Hi Friends! Below are excerpts from our Winter 2008/09 issue on Sanctuary. Please understand that we rely on the support of subscribers to keep going. So, subscribe today and keep the conversation going!...EditorsWC79 - Editor's Notetag:typepad.com,2003:post-652518992009-04-08T23:52:58-04:002009-04-08T22:36:29-04:00Editor's Note A Place for Us By Dan Vera & Bo Young Bo: For myself, I'd say because I think the idea of "sanctuary" is important to Gay men...Harry Hay's discourse on this, that we include here, is probably the...Editors