Author Archives: Richard Guzman
Emmanuel House in “Top 100”
NOTE: IN APRIL 2018, AS PART OF ITS CONTINUING COMMITMENT TO HELP BREAK CYCLES OF POVERTY, EMMANUEL HOUSE MERGED WITH A LONG-TIME PARTNER ORGANIZATION TO BECOME THE NEIGHBOR PROJECT. THE STORY BELOW REMAINS ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF EMMANUEL HOUSE’S … Continue reading
Cultural Events at North Central College: A Personal History
This is the LEAD POST in a series on major conferences and individual speakers I helped bring to my college as the head of, first, The Visiting Lecturer Committee, which then grew to become the Cultural Events Committee. I’m posting … Continue reading
Raja and Milosz and Me
Sometimes I think it’s my favorite book in the world: Czeslaw Milosz’s poetry anthology titled A Book of Luminous Things. Subtitled “An International Anthology of Poetry,” it ranges over continents and centuries giving us mostly short poems from Wang Wei, … Continue reading