Enjoy an evening of poetry of “conscience, intelligence, and eloquence with a candid and humane activist, an adventurer, traveler, penetrating scholar, and teacher.... reminding one that some valuable human beings with authentic voices are still among us.” His long poem Coming to Jakarta has been called the most important political poem to appear in the English language in a very long time. His meditative poems also honor the world as a spiritual resource, and reveal a profound sympathy for all things.