From the Archives: Dust with Jeans On
This year for Lent, I am considering wearing some variation of the same outfit
from Ash Wednesday to Easter. I am probably not brave enough to do this alone,
though, so here’s
Social Justice
Around the World in Seventy-Five Poems
Between 2010 and 2011, I embarked on a journey to see the world’s mess and
magnificence, to collect stories, create poetry with the voiceless, to write an
adventurous chapter of my own
In Defense of Slum Tourism
After spending the better part of the last two years working in some of the most
destitute regions of the developing world’s brightest stars—Brazil and India—I
arrived at two disconcerting,
KwaZulu-land
From Washington, DC to Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, for an agricultural
development conference, held at the Golden Horse Casino Hotel, May, 2007.
I don’t mean to fly off the handle but
flying off…
Hope Between the Bars
A few months ago I wrote a rather scathing column criticizing
[http://www.curatormagazine.com/joshcacopardo/cruel-and-usual-2/]the American
prison system, specifically regarding its practical function as a punitive
institution versus its theoretical