Brooks Lampe

My blogs

About me

Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation Teacher
Location Washington, D.C.
Introduction "A grappa in one hand, a double espresso in the other, I move through the room, slowly." --Charles Wright
Interests I love: Art, poetry, books, English, Amercian surrealism, Joyce, Seamus Heaney, Deep Image poets, Kayak Magazine (Hitchcock), Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Hafiz, Rumi, photographic arts, Irish, New York, prayer, sacraments, liturgy, football, the New York Giants. I'm interested in thoughtful discourse about: masculinity, femininity, theory, critical theory, criticism, linguistics, semiotics, mysticism, monks, Roman Catholicism, Orthodoxy, women's behavior, metrosexuality, Travis Timmons, American culture, American spirituality, Homeschooling, pedagogy. I abhor: American politics, Thomas Kinkade, reality tv, John Grisham novels
Favorite Movies Past Profile quotes: Live on poetry and mushrooms long enough and of course this will happen. / / This is a complicated blog because I am a complicated person. / / "Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind." / / "If you think I am having more fun than anyone on this planet, you are absolutely correct." -Hafiz / / "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." -Whitman / /