Who We Are
September 11 2001 hearts and lives were broken, our emotional reference system to what makes our world make sense...fractured at best. On September 12, 2001, SF Peace and Hope was born.
For me, this experience is like being in the desert without visual anchors; a stark, solitary confinement of too much illogical space and suddenly out of a mysterious pocket of earth is a peacock. He fluffs his feathers up high and wide. He shows us our humanity and our beauty in the midst of dust and death.
The eyes of the peacock's feathers are said to be the symbol of eternal life; renewal, the eyes of the stars seeing us in our—in the words of Al Young—"deathless truths". The poems in SF Peace and Hope are those stars beaded into the large plume of humanity—they say simply, 'we are bigger than politics and even death, we have the strength of a renewing spirit'. - Niya C. Sisk
Juli Mancini, Kuan Yin's Apprentice, Acrylic on wood panel
Elizabeth Hack, Niya C. Sisk, and Al Young. December 18, 2010.
Advisor:
Al Young, California poet laureate emeritus
Web Designer:
Niya C. Sisk, MFA, Ritual Labs, Principal, Creative Director
Founder and Editor:
Elizabeth Hack
Acknowledgments:
Marty Wood
Dan Sirak, Jolt Studios
Kit Kennedy
Claire J. Baker
Linda Kaplan
Frances Spencer
Philip Lewenthal
Dan Brady
Evelyn Glaubman
Copyright:
© 2012 San Francisco Peace and Hope. All rights reserved. No copy or reproduction of contents is authorized without written permission from the participating visual artists, poets or writers.