Alma College Rumi Hour

Alma College Rumi Hour Thursdays at 4pm: an hour of poetry run by Dr. Bob Vivian at Highland Blush in downtown Alma. Bring

12/06/2018

Rumi hour in 15! Join us at highland blush!

12/05/2018

Ignore the previous post, Rumi hour will be held tomorrow, Thursday at 4pm!

12/05/2018

The last Rumi Hour of the year will be held today at 4:00 at Highland Blush downtown. Feel free to bring your own work to read or that of others!

Here is a poem by Rami Shapiro called "And You Shall Love":

Having heard the One, I know myself commanded:
With all my heart: love Life--
feel freely, feel fully, act wisely.
With all my mind: love Life--
let no opinion make truth taboo.
With all my strength: love Life--
be in the world with purpose and presence.
Set Truth upon your heart and let not
the One become lost in the many.
Glove your hands with compassion
that your deeds be just.
Open your eyes to wisdom
that your vision be daring and true.
Set these words
upon the doorposts of your house
and upon your gates
that your going and your coming in
be for peace.

11/01/2018

Please join us today for Rumi Hour at 4 at Highland Blush!
Here is a poem by Jewish poet Gerald Stern, native son of Pittsburgh, in the wake of the recent appalling massacre in this great city:

BRAIN OF MY HEART

Thank God for the walnut in 1986.

Thank God for the hard green shell and the greasy center.

All you, you thirty white worms and forty green grubs,

I know what you are, burrowing like pigs,

running like moths inside your bulging rooms.

I pick up a rubber ball, it may be a walnut

gone black on the sidewalk, it may have a hundred worms

drinking the juices and drying up the husks.

I do a Pittsburgh twist, a double-handed

reverse action, I learned it in three short hours.

I put my foot on the mound, the rubber juices

fall like blood on the street; I'm doing the fiend's work;

I kick the tennis balls. I drive my car

over the hard green stones. it is the bounce

I learned in Philadelphia, pebbles piled up

in every alley, a terrible screaming and wailing.

10/25/2018

Hello! Just a reminder that Rumi Hour will take place today at 4 at Highland Blush.

Please feel free to join us for a deep breath from life's day to day stressors through celebration of the written word.

Here is a poem entitled "It's This Way" by the courageous Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet who faced so much hardship in his life:

I stand in the advancing light,

my hands hungry, the world beautiful.

My eyes can't get enough of the trees--

they're so hopeful, so green.

A sunny road runs through the mulberries,

I'm at the window of the prison infirmary.

I can't smell the medicines--

carnations must be blooming nearby.

It's this way:

being captured is beside the point,

the point is not to surrender.

translated by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Kokunk

10/18/2018

Hello! Please join us for Rumi Hour today at 4pm at Highland Blush!

10/11/2018

Just a reminder that Rumi hour will be happening today at 4pm at Highland Blush downtown! We would love to see you there!

Here is a poem by the wonderful Russian poet Gennady Aygi called "Going To Sleep In Childhood":

but high up--my river of spirits:
you running inward to each other
and thus--growing dark--
far off and far off

and from bruises of cherishing
beloved and soft
your dresses are strange in that river:

could it be in sparks of child-spirit
there in that black blue distance

and--like water holes in opening light
you flicker far off in the light of the field
as over forest clearings--their holy faces:

you somewhere in the field in the wind
like a manuscript now in sleep--with whitening
surface:

are bright

10/09/2018

Rumi hour will be relocating!!

Beginning this Thursday we will be hosting an hour of poetry at Highland Blush in downtown Alma at 4pm. Please stop by! Sharing of your own work or that of others is welcome and encouraged but not necessary!

09/20/2018

Hello! Please join us today at 4 in the Clack Auditorium for an hour of poetry! Bring your own work, read from someone else's or simply come to enjoy the atmosphere!

02/08/2018

This week's Rumi Hour will be held at usual time and place, 4:00 p.m. this Thursday in Clack Auditorium! All are welcome.
Here is a poem by W.S. Merwin called "Variation On A Theme":

Thank you my lifelong afternoon
late in this season of no age
thank you for my windows above the rivers
thank you for the true love you brought me to
when it was time at last and for words
that come out of silence and take me by surprise
and have carried me through the clear day
without once turning to look at me
thank you for friends and long echoes of them
and for those mistakes that were only mine
for the homesickness that guides the plovers
from somewhere they loved before
they woke into it to another place
they loved before they ever saw it
thank you whole body and hand and eye
thank you sights and moments known
only to me who will not see them again
except in my mind's eye where they have not changed
thank you for showing me the morning stars
and for the dogs who are guiding me.

Hey friends! Rumi hour is today at 4 in the Clack auditorium! Join us at the start of this fresh, new semester for poems...
01/11/2018

Hey friends! Rumi hour is today at 4 in the Clack auditorium! Join us at the start of this fresh, new semester for poems and good times!

Please join us today for Rumi Hour! Come escape the cold and enjoy some poetry in the Clack auditorium at 4!
11/16/2017

Please join us today for Rumi Hour! Come escape the cold and enjoy some poetry in the Clack auditorium at 4!

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