Chivas Sandage is an Assistant Professor at Westfield State College where she teaches Composition I & II: Rewriting America, World Literature I & II, & Contemporary Cross-Cultural Literature. Her essays, poems and stories have appeared in the Artful Dodge, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Evergreen Review, Hampshire Life Magazine, Ms. Magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly, upstreet, Verse, Manthology: Poems on the Male Experience (Univ. of Iowa Press, ‘06) and Same-Sex Marriage: The Moral and Legal Debate (Prometheus Books, ‘04). She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College and a BA from Bennington College. The Northampton Arts Council has awarded numerous artist grants for her writing, teaching and performance work. Currently, she is completing a collection of poetry titled Hidden Drive. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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Recent Comments
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March 12, 2008 at 6:14 pm |
Thank you for letting me in on your word press. Press to impress, dress to redress, and pass on passion too passive. Can you believe that “passion’ and “passive” both come from the same Latin patriarchal sense of suffering, especially all that awful suffering suffusing JC, I mean Jesus Christ? It’s like damning the very blood rushing through our veins – crminal – or at least ill-mannered – to be too passionate, but also dangerous to suffer passively. The only hope is in revising the language according to holistic prinicples! Then the passive state is to be actively charging one’s chi in vibrant stillness, and to be passionate is to let feelings and deeds free, unbridled, serving the righteous glory that is our humanity!
Y’think Hillary or Obama be hip to that simplification of the energetic experience?
Great picture of you, and the perfect photo of your dad and grandmom to grace a “cross-genre” bloggeroo! I’ve waited 20 years to see that pic!
As for the Tarot – well, pray that the last clairvoyant to read my cards was correct. Chivas for Secretary of Literature!
September 20, 2008 at 2:13 am |
I’m glad I read your poetry before I read your About page. Had it been the opposite, I might have been scared away. (smile) You’re very good. I enjoyed my stay. I hope to visit often.
July 26, 2009 at 4:13 pm |
Hi Chivas – content solid, site ripe. Congrats on what you have wrought, published & of course especial blessings toward continued magic via your young one.
There’s a piece you wrote about concerning family and the heat back in AK. Where might I find a copy? Time and water have worked their wonders on the sheet you passed to me.
July 26, 2009 at 9:16 pm |
Thank you, Jeff… I appreciate your taking the time to visit & read some early drafts… I’ll send you a revised copy of the poem you asked about. Hope all is well!