Michael Kurin discusses the connections between the Akeidah and the Rosh Hashanah services. The post A Day of Remembrance: From Torah Reading to Shofar Blast appeared first on The Lehrhaus.| The Lehrhaus
On Friday 3rd October 2025, in the Aula of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, starting at 16:00 CET, I'll deliver my inaugural lecture as professor by special appointment on the chair "The Actuality of Spinoza". It sounds very formal, and in fact it is, but I hope to handle it with some subtle humor. The event is public but it will also be accessible remotely and the same link used for the live stream can be used at any later time to listen to the recording. Here's the link:https://eur.cloud.pano| Dhammavicaya
I’m excited to be taking part in the Fall for the Book Festival in Fairfax, VA, in a few weeks. I’ll be reading with two other George Mason University alumni, Matt Burriesci and Alyson Foster, on Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 6 pm in the Center for the Arts on the GMU campus. I can remember […]| Lisa Ampleman
I’m looking forward to a different sort of reading this Friday and Saturday (March 14 and 15). I’ll be performing as part of the Cincinnati Contemporary Dance Theater’s Performance and Time Arts series, which brings together music, dance, poetry, and performance. Tickets are $12 in advance, $8 in advance for students and seniors. Though the […]| Lisa Ampleman
It’s a great day! My book, Full Cry, is now available on Amazon.com. If you prefer to pay with a check, you can buy it through the website of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies…| Lisa Ampleman
Just before Christmas, I've stumbled upon Machine Learning Engineering Open Book by Stas Bekman. It's a book I've long been looking for – a collection of insights on operating a large GPU cluster and using it to train and run LLMs: AI accelerators, fast intra-node and inter-node networking, optimized cluster storage, large-scale LLM training and inference, with lots of first-hand experience on these topics. I want to share my key takes from the book as well as other excellent resources I've...| Ten thousand meters
Until recently, I've hardly used reversals in my tarot activities, preferring instead to consider the light and shadow aspects of each card as they appear. Over recent weeks however, I've been fortunate enough to learn a little of the Enneagram system of personality classification and my attitude towards reversals has begun to change, particularly where the court cards are concerned.| Sacred Tarot
This past month, I read from my novel to two very different audiences. The first was at The Rubin Museum in New York City as part of an event called Writing Sacred Lhasa. Reading there with two fellow Tibetan women writers I admire in so many ways, Tenzin Dickyi and Sonam Tsomo, was especially meaningful to...| Tsering Yangzom Lama
If you’re in or near Manhattan tonight, I hope you’ll drop by to hear fiction by me and a few other excellent writers, in support of an excellent cause . . . Wednesday, October 2: 7:00-9:00 pm , 85 E. 4th St., Manhattan...| Sinister Regard
If you’re in or near Brooklyn tonight, I hope you’ll drop by to hear personal essays by me and some other excellent writers and storytellers . . . Monday, September 30: 7:30-10:30 pm , 603 Vanderbilt Ave., Brooklyn At the “Back to School”...| Sinister Regard
New Yorkers! I’m participating in two events next week that I hope you’ll be able to come out and see: Monday, September 30: 7:30-10:30 pm , 603 Vanderbilt Ave., Brooklyn At the “Back to School” edition of this new...| Sinister Regard
Bill will be one of more than half a dozen artists appearing at the upcoming edition of the Lyrics, Lit & Liquor perfomance series, at 2A Bar in Manhattan's East Village. He will read an excerpt from a new...| Sinister Regard
I'll be one of more than 150 scheduled performers at the , which takes place on January 1, 2019, from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. at St. John's Lutheran Church in Greenwich Village. This year's theme is "Before the...| Sinister Regard
If you’re in or near Manhattan tonight, I hope you’ll drop by KGB Bar to hear fiction by me and a few other excellent writers, in support of an excellent cause . . . Wednesday, October 2: 7:00-9:00 pm. Liars’ League NYC presents Accident & Emergency. KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th St., Manhattan. At this long-running series, original short stories are read by professional actors. My new...| William Shunn
If you’re in or near Brooklyn tonight, I hope you’ll drop by Branded Saloon to hear personal essays by me and some other excellent writers and storytellers . . . Monday, September 30: 7:30-10:30 pm. Write This Down: A Creative Nonfiction Reading Series. Branded Saloon, 603 Vanderbilt Ave., Brooklyn. At the “Back to School” edition of this new nonfiction series, I’ll be reading “Words and Phrases You...| William Shunn
New Yorkers! I’m participating in two events next week that I hope you’ll be able to come out and see: Monday, September 30: 7:30-10:30 pm. Write This Down: A Creative Nonfiction Reading Series. Branded Saloon, 603 Vanderbilt Ave., Brooklyn. At the “Back to School” edition of this new nonfiction series, I’ll be reading “Words and Phrases You Must Never Use in Utah,” a personal...| William Shunn
Today is America's day, and what's more American than Coney Island? I have a poem for Coney Island, so, by the transitive property, this poem is also for America. And like America, it perhaps contains some bad words. [ click here to play audio file ] (It’s also for Throwback Thursday, since it was recorded live, complete with rhythm section, at the HiFi Bar...| William Shunn
Bill will be one of more than half a dozen artists appearing at the upcoming edition of the Lyrics, Lit & Liquor perfomance series, at 2A Bar in Manhattan's East Village. He will read an excerpt from a new short story, "This One's Easy." Also appearing are Colin Dodds, Stacy LeVine, Christie Grotheim, Ron Kolm, Cassandra Nemzer, and Becca Bernard & Ian Goldstein. Admission...| William Shunn
I'll be one of more than 150 scheduled performers at the 25th Annual Alternative New Year's Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza, which takes place on January 1, 2019, from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. at St. John's Lutheran Church in Greenwich Village. This year's theme is "Before the Dawn." (Note: My 3-minute slot on the program will take place at some point between 7 and...| William Shunn
