Barbara Barg is a pre-Socratic / post postmodern / pre-Apocalyptic poet and through those lenses explores writing, music, performance, teaching, the ground, the sky, and life in general. She was raised in Eastern Arkansas near the Mississippi Delta and -- after many wanderings -- moved to New York City where she became a several-times-recognized-in-a-coffee-shop poet/musician on that throbbing scene. She moved to Chicago in 2008. She hopes to out-live fascism and imperialism, but doesn’t let the demise of sane, political discourse destroy subjective attainments of personal happiness and peace where appropriate.

Currently:

Faculty Member at
Chicago School of Poetics

Writing Screenplays for
Jump Room Films

In the works:

Brave New Squirrel (children's sci-fi book)

American Spleen (a book of non-fiction, fiction, metaphysics, science, anthropology, poetry)

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Wondering how mutable we are how mutable sailing through internal landscapes and landfills, watching the 21st Century struggle to shed the 20th Century's skin. Trying to eat better, pay attention . . .

Thank you, Peg O'Connell for the beautiful photographs of leaves floating in the sky and the home page pic of a leaf floating in blue water. And thank you, Timothy Lomas for those rooftop photos.