(December 20, 2018/ Illustration: segment of illustration for book cover by Juan Ibanez) This morning Alta delivered the box of my poem book, Mearcstapa. This has been a project postponed for decades (funny that as you age you can say this about more and more ‘things’) and the most recent step in my Kick the...Read More

(November 30, 2018/  Jorge Ibanez / Photo: Jorge Ibanez)   Well, wasn’t this a ‘de Paz’ Thanksgiving…. This festivity, based on an absolute falsified ‘historic’ anecdote, has taken such a hold in Puerto Rico that you would swear the Pilgrims landed near Yabucoa (God forbid, Catholics were bad enough!!). And, although not yet a deserving...Read More

(November 01, 2018/ Jorge Ibanez / Photo: Jorge Ibanez)   A couple of weeks ago, I was referred from an online article to an interesting site that I would highly recommend, <a href=”http://www.openculture.com/”>Open Culture</a>. The featured article was at that time a review of an interesting blog, <a href=”https://dailystoic.com/”>The Daily Stoic</a>. This is a beautifully...Read More

(July 8, 2018, 2018 / Digital Art: Jorge Ibanez)   I developed the digital design series Postcards from the Darklands in 2016 for a poem book of the same title by Gainesville poet Jimmy Fishshawk. It consisted of ten digitally altered versions of photos I took in my travels through France and Italy. We aimed...Read More