During my winter semester break from teaching, I had to opportunity of travelling through parts of Thailand as a break from the routine of correcting and grading my students' writing papers. Also, this gives me a chance to gather some new materials for my travel writing and poems. Here I am by the river in Bangkok.
"The statues of Savannah's Monument Square are silent. The statue of the solemn girl in Bonaventure Cemetery—made famous in John Berendt's blockbuster book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil—can't speak. Only Savannah's literary monuments can g