Beyond BordersStories in Steel: Croix des Bouquets
January 27, 2014
Guest contributor Marcus Ellsworth is a poet living in Chattanooga, Tennessee who was a participant in Epple Seed Arts' Artists Pilgrimage to Haiti. (more…)
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It was an impossible dream
January 20, 2014
When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. announced his dream from atop the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, it seemed impossibly idealistic. (more…)
4th earthquake anniversary: discovering my role
January 14, 2014
The earthquake that struck Haiti four years ago this Sunday was the deadliest natural disaster in the history of our hemisphere. But it wasn't the strength of the quake that primed Haiti for such unimaginable death and destruction. (more…)
No Place Like Home
December 26, 2013
I’ve not seen many grown men sob like Eddy’s father did. Mr. Felix was trying to explain that he had never agreed to send his 10-year-old son away, even though the neighbors kept pushing him to. The neighbors saw inRead More »
a baby who didn’t belong
December 24, 2013
I knew I belonged in Haiti before I met the woman who I’d come to belong to. Teddi Ann and I met in graduate school where I’d gone after my first two years in Haiti. We were still just friendsRead More »