New Play “Tickets to Manhood” July 14-30, 2011 NYC
SHOW: Tickets to Manhood by James Scruggs WHEN: July 14 – July 30 WHERE: Dixon Place, 161 Chrystie Street, NY, NY 10002 HOW MUCH: $15 in advance, $18 at the door. WHY: a Play about Rites of Passage, Initiation, and Masculinity in the 21st Century. From the Editor: I will be representing the ManKind Project for a talk-back panel discussion after the July 23 performance of Tickets to Manhood. I saw an early reading of this play...
I RELEASE; a poem
By Paul Goldman I release every single infinitesimal ion of my being: my thoughts, my emotions, my desires, and my beliefs, everything at once. In this glorious instant, my soul soars to heights beyond imagining, as I traverse the farthest reaches of the Universe. I am nothing, I am each quantum nano particulate of matter sailing the electromagnetic seas at the speed of light. I release, I release, I release… (c) Paul Goldman...
I AM AN EARTHFOLK
by Francis X. Kroncke To understand my claim and its message about masculinity and spirituality, some background about the 1970s anti-war trials of the “Minnesota 8” draft board raiders is required. “…five years in a federal penitentiary.” I was indicted on “sabotage of the national defense.” Convicted of a crime of violence, I remain a felon for destroying government property-the 1-A files of...
What it Means to Be a Man Today
by David McCalib (Written circa 2 A.M. Sunday, 12/19/2010) These are challenging circumstances to focus on this now, in a cold room with a migraine at 2 A.M.; I’d rather be warm under five layers or in a hot tub or gently swinging in a hammock on a tropical Pacific island paradise, but I will do my best to focus on this idea, this task that flashed out of nowhere after I was asked to write something and envisioned writing it. What...