November 18, 2016
When It’s Not Our World Anymore What Will We Hear: On Empathy
We wait for their approach. We are the silence that multiplies itself in the night. We are the dark with our eyes closed. We are the hard knots pressed against […]
February 11, 2016
Empathy & Female Anger: On Yael Hedaya’s “Housebroken” (Part 3)
I didn’t want to write about “Matti,” the last story in Yael Hedaya’s collection Housebroken. Perhaps because it’s a story I’m tired of hearing: women forgiving men for the most […]
December 28, 2011
Blog Post: Two Revisitings
I read over my first posts to see if the remove of time could add any insight. It’s like sitting on a “finished” poem to see if it’s still good […]
November 5, 2010
Empathy and the Jury
Eight of us filed back into the courtroom, into the juror’s box and sat down. As everyone else in the room also sat, the judge peered at us over her […]