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Feeding Time by Jude McConkey Connect w/ Jude :: Facebook :: Etsy :: Twitter :: Late Night Shift Slouching over the sizzling grill a towel tied around his lean hips sweat gathers in the pouches ben…
My poem, published some years ago in Words Dance magazine.
Happy National Poetry Month!
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Susan E. Oringel is a poet and writer, a teacher of creative writing, and a psychologist in private practice in the New York Capital District. She has published in various literary journals and has also served as co-translator of a collection of Latin American poetry: Messengers of Rain, published by Groundwoods Press, 2002, 2011. Her chapbook manuscripts How The Body and My Coney Island were finalists in the Slapering Hol’ Press contest, 1997 and 2017 competitions. Fellowships and awards include Individual Artist award from the Albany-Schenectady League of Arts, a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, and an SOS award sponsored by the New York State Council of the Arts.
Coney Island is not only a vividly evoked place, but a history of the country and of a family. Issues of immigration, assimilation, and belonging thread subtly but clearly through these poems; the public and the personal inter- twine. Astutely, Oringel finds in the carnival rides and parades, the drag and burlesque queens and freak shows “places where old morality gave way….” and sees too the oceanfront as a place of escape from daily hard work, and “from what was, is, surely waiting.” Through the lives of struggle and dreams of a better future, Oringel’s empathetic gift finds “the will, indomitable,” in her mother in “La Vie en Gris,” and prays for the same in “poor everybody,” in the poem of that title. These are rich, sustaining poems.
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Poem continued here: “Heartless“ by Beatriz F. Fernandez published on Words Dance.
My poem, published 4 years ago in Words Dance Magazine...I’m looking up my old poems in celebration of National Poetry Month!
Chiune Sugihara. This man saved 6000 Jews. He was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He hand-wrote them 18 hrs a day. The day his consulate closed and he had to evacuate, witnesses claim he was STILL writing visas and throwing from the train as he pulled away. He saved 6000 lives. The world didn’t know what he’d done until Israel honored him in 1985, the year before he died.
Why can’t we have a movie about him?
He was often called “Sempo”, an alternative reading of the characters of his first name, as that was easier for Westerners to pronounce.
His wife, Yukiko, was also a part of this; she is often credited with suggesting the plan. The Sugihara family was held in a Soviet POW camp for 18 months until the end of the war; within a year of returning home, Sugihara was asked to resign - officially due to downsizing, but most likely because the government disagreed with his actions.
He didn’t simply grant visas - he granted visas against direct orders, after attempting three times to receive permission from the Japanese Foreign Ministry and being turned down each time. He did not “misread” orders; he was in direct violation of them, with the encouragement and support of his wife.
He was honoured as Righteous Among the Nations in 1985, a year before he died in Kamakura; he and his descendants have also been granted permanent Israeli citizenship. He was also posthumously awarded the Life Saving Cross of Lithuania (1993); Commander’s Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (1996); and the Commander’s Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2007). Though not canonized, some Eastern Orthodox Christians recognize him as a saint.
Sugihara was born in Gifu on the first day of 1900, January 1. He achieved top marks in his schooling; his father wanted him to become a physician, but Sugihara wished to pursue learning English. He deliberately failed the exam by writing only his name and then entered Waseda, where he majored in English. He joined the Foreign Ministry after graduation and worked in the Manchurian Foreign Office in Harbin (where he learned Russian and German; he also converted to the Eastern Orthodox Church during this time). He resigned his post in protest over how the Japanese government treated the local Chinese citizens. He eventually married Yukiko Kikuchi, who would suggest and encourage his acts in Lithuania; they had four sons together. Chiune Sugihara passed away July 31, 1986, at the age of 86. Until her own passing in 2008, Yukiko continued as an ambassador of his legacy.
It is estimated that the Sugiharas saved between 6,000-10,000 Lithuanian and Polish Jewish people.
It’s a tragedy that the Sugiharas aren’t household names. They are among the greatest heroes of WWII. Is it because they were from an Axis Power? Is it because they aren’t European? I don’t know. But I’ve decided to always reblog them when they come across my dash. If I had the money, I would finance a movie about them.
He told an interviewer:
You want to know about my motivation, don’t you? Well. It is the kind of sentiments anyone would have when he actually sees refugees face to face, begging with tears in their eyes. He just cannot help but sympathize with them. Among the refugees were the elderly and women. They were so desperate that they went so far as to kiss my shoes, Yes, I actually witnessed such scenes with my own eyes. Also, I felt at that time, that the Japanese government did not have any uniform opinion in Tokyo. Some Japanese military leaders were just scared because of the pressure from the Nazis; while other officials in the Home Ministry were simply ambivalent.
People in Tokyo were not united. I felt it silly to deal with them. So, I made up my mind not to wait for their reply. I knew that somebody would surely complain about me in the future. But, I myself thought this would be the right thing to do. There is nothing wrong in saving many people’s lives….The spirit of humanity, philanthropy…neighborly friendship…with this spirit, I ventured to do what I did, confronting this most difficult situation—and because of this reason, I went ahead with redoubled courage.
He died in nearly complete obscurity in Japan. His neighbors were shocked when people from all over, including Israeli diplomatic personnel, showed up at quiet little Mr. Sugihara’s funeral.
I will forever reblog this, I wish more people would know about them!
I liked this before when it had way less information. Thank you, history-sharers.
Tucked away in a corner in L.A.’s Little Tokyo is a life-sized statue of Chiune, seated on a bench and smiling gently as he holds out a visa.
The stone next to him bears a quote from the Talmud; “He who saves one life, saves the entire world.”
I had no idea it existed until a few weeks ago, but it’s since become one of my favorite pieces of public art.
Chiune Sugihara. Original antifa.
PBS made a documentary about Chiune Sugihara in 2005. If you’re interested in him, it’s definitely worth checking out. (The PBS link above even has some interactive information to go along with the film.) Ask your local library if they have a copy/can order you one from another library. You won’t be disappointed!
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Celebrating at the Provost’s Office @fiu faculty authors’ reception in the campus Barnes and Noble bookstore! My second chapbook, The Ocean Between Us, published by Backbone Press, can be purchased there or @backbonepress’s website: http://backbonepress.org/. This chapbook has poems about Puerto Rico and Florida, my two homes.
I’m very happy and honored to announce the fall 2017 publication of my 2nd chapbook, The Ocean Between Us by Backbone Press. Backbone’s description: “The Ocean Between Us is a co…
Announcing forthcoming publication of my new poetry chapbook!
My poetry chapbook “Voices from the Bonfire” made the finalist list in Thirty West Publishing House’s 2017 chapbook contest: However, their critique of the manuscript let me down …
I’m very proud to be included in a wonderful new issue of Whale Road Review!
Happy Birthday to me! My contributor copies of Thirty West Publishing House’s poetry challenge arrived! The winning pieces of the weekly challenges are published, along with others. (Mine were sonnets) These are handbound chaplets by Josh Dale of TWPH.
My friend Joss Whedon made this powerful short film. Take a look and consider standing with @plannedparenthood: ppaction.org/Unlocked
Thirty West Publishing House produces hand-bound chaplets and chapbooks. As I previously posted, they recently chose my poem "The Surest Poison" as winner of their sonnet challenge (part of their celebration of National Poetry Month) and now editor Josh Dale is publishing a chaplet of all the weekly challenge winners! It will include work from four different writers and four different genres/forms, and will include my winning sonnet as well as a second sonnet "Blood Pacts." Many thanks to TWPH for their support of poetry and writers! I would like to learn to make hand-bound chaps like these! In Josh's picture, you see some of the tools he uses and the resulting chapbooks.
P.S. If you look closely at the second picture, you will see that my two poems happened to fall in the middle pages of the chaplet!
I just supported Pink Out to Protect Care at PP on @ThunderclapIt // @PPFA
I just supported Pink Out to Protect Care at PP on @ThunderclapIt // @PPFA
Sitting Behind the Wheel Makes Us Think We're in Control
by Rina Caparras
How foolish we are—driving under the stars inside a borrowed car, talking about the home we would share, the places we would go, the things we would do. Talking as if the path to the future was laid before our feet, talking as if we weren’t shuffling like blind little ants inside a petri dish. We could chase the moon all night and never get there. You could step on the gas, but we’d just bump on whatever’s in front of us— a car, an island, a tree, a child. It’s like that day I caught a firefly: I held it for so long, that it was dead by the time I unclasped my hands. The stars are kind, but everything that lives has to share their light.
December 2014 Where were you born? When? I was born in the City of Brotherly Love: Philadelphia, PA, in 1961. We were one of the first Latino families to move into the neighborhood and no one knew...
At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.
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Many thanks to the editors of The Literary Arts Review for their two-page book review of my chapbook Shining from a Different Firmament!! They are among the few journals that review poetry chapboo…
Three of my historical persona poems published by The Copperfield Review...check out their historical fiction author interviews!
