#tree of fire

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David Boyd (1924 - 2011) - Europa’s Daughter Diving from the Tree of Fire into a Blue Rose Bush with Animals in Flight. 2003. Oil on canvas.

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My people have died as fires die--without a trace.

Adonis, from ‘Tree of Fire’, The Pages of Day and Night (trans. Samuel Hazo)

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Writer Gabriela Lopez de Dennis did a write up of TREE OF FIRE, opening THIS FRIDAY!?b>

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RAW Founder Jesse Bliss sits down with Santana Westbrook of TruthSeekers Radio to talk about the upcoming production of Tree of Fire. She shares the "Who, What, and Why of this passion project four years in the making.

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The Glass Leaf

As we embark on production for our upcoming play TREE OF FIRE, The Roots and Wings Project will be blogging about The Prison-Industrial Complex, a topic the play deals with heavily.

After nine years of service as a Creative Writing Teacher in juvenile hall, I resigned on Wednesday.  My heart hurts. I had a nightmare last night that I was compressed by water holding me down in my student’s cells, almost drowning with them.  I woke up and cried while getting ready to go to what would be one of the last classes I would teach at Central Juvenile Hall.

I must change capacities. There is not a bone in my body that has grown weary of teaching my students. Those hours in the halls have been the most heart-felt, electrifying hours of my life.  However, the bureaucracy of the system, the things my eyes have seen inside those walls, is haunting.

I leave not abandoning them, not running from the horror of it all, but trusting that other capacities will give me opportunities in which to shed light on the emergency of mass incarceration.  As my dear colleague suggested, the tears will turn from mourning to celebration of the new path I embark on as I carry each and every precious moment I've spent with my students in my heart, blood and bones.

I leave with my eyes looking up, surrendering in prayer that I can somehow be even more effective in another context. I look forward to the telling of TREE OF FIRE. I am excited for those characters to breathe.  I welcome the conversations the work elicits. My husband mentioned I am stepping out onto a glass leaf. Indeed. – Jesse Bliss