Roger F Malina
Upon starting to think read “Mundus Artium: A journal of international letters and the arts,
Volume 17, Numbers 1 and 2 2023
Pirate Minds, Pirate Mints, Pirate Eclipses
There are over 7,500 varieties of mint plants, including trees, shrubs, and ornamental plants. The most common species are peppermint, spearmint, and chocolate mint and mint fever.
Thank you, Fred Turner, Rainer Schulte, Janis Meyes, Gjeke Marina and dozens
Of refugees and pirates, intellectual and physical, for planting different mints.
For reviving, resuscitating an academic journal that died 30 years ago,
Now, launching its first publication since the late 1980s of it’s press’s world literature periodical,
Ironically Fred Turner, Robert Stern and I have just founded the Non-Center of Emergence
Sometimes re-emergence is more worthwhile than emergence
Divergence than Convergence
Ingenuity of the old and distant re=applied to the now and here makes
The smell of a kind of mint, a kind of mind.,
I highly recommend buying and reading in hot water
So lets connect the dots of stars or ideas and concepts
Thanks Chris Lee for https://artscilab.utdallas.edu/2022/10/11/constellation-mapper/
Which brings me to taking a breath of mxxx
For Evan Acuna the resuscitator of Creative Disturbance
An un-necessary podcast platform that died during a necessary pandemic
Is this a poem or a review or marketing ( Nikhil ?)
Of https://artscilab.utdallas.edu/2022/10/28/creative-disturbance/
A major result of the Non-Center for Emergence Studies began with
When, as good recovering astronomers , we observe
And never meddle with a universe except to trigger auto-poetic change.
Noted that our university, University of Texas at Dallas, was a refugee center
For our now colleagues who could not get a job elsewhere in Texas or beyond
Led to the emergence of the arts and humanities at UTD thirty years
After its founding and Like Mundus Artium is blooming now as the Bass School
Which sounds like : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t2q0lsUl4k
The Editorial Board of Mundus Artium is a case in point of all of the above.
We undervalue the significance of pirates, (thank you Gary Hall)
Migrants and vagrants and indigenous or rather ingenious peoples
Whose borders are usually fuzzy and blobby ( thanks Aidan Acuna)
Thank you Evan Acuna, and Laura Kim who made blob ology emerge
https://www.lauraonsale.com/blob.html
Hold the bassoon:
We discovered that there is an illegal migrant
Without a passport or visa
About to cross the border between Mexico and Texas
It is the April 8 Solar eclipse
Think about it while drinking mint tea
Read the forthcoming poems on illegal eclipses
By Fred Turner and George Morgan and contribute one of your own
By emailing roger.malina@alum.mit.edu
