About
David Almaleck Wolinsky’s non-career found him a novice middle-school teacher for 6 years in the Park Heights ghetto of 1990s Baltimore, and a non-blood grandpa many years later. He and his wife Lilia took care of their mothers at home for decades: Florinda (born in 1912 in Ecuador) who died in 2021, and Mary (1922-2018). Mary was a Sephardic Jew whose mother called her Miriám, and her grandson Davichon. Among other useful delusions, he believes his activism and volunteer work (and some poems) honor the convivencia of the Al-Andalus of a thousand years ago, as well as today’s cries ofNo Justice, No Peace.
David has had two books of poetry published by Dos Madres Press: The Crane is Flying: Early Poems, and Llanto Tonto (Poems, Vol.3). His Fear & Fire: Poems in a Time of Two Plagues is scheduled for publication in late 2022. He is working on a book of “translations and transformations” from Argentine Nuevo Cancion and it’s musical-political cousins.
David and Lilia among the birds and the trees, rocks, rhizomes and other critters, in central Maryland. He tells anyone he can to read Robin Wall Kimmerer and Suzanne Simard. The critters, he says, agree.
Tierras Keridas Reborn 
2 responses to “About”
Ariel
May 3rd, 2022 at 14:43
Your humility doesn’t go nearly far enough. For your biggest and overarching mistake is to favor evil backward neo-Nazi Islamists over the relatively enlightened Israelis. Israel is not perfect, but it is light years ahead in its values and humanity as compared with your beloved Arabs. Too bad you are blinded by what can be termed as nothing else but utter and complete naivety— taking Arab words at face value. You cannot imagine that you are a silly victim of bald faced lies and crocodile tears, but be assured you are. Almost every Arab raised properly within their culture can pull off these skills with ease and without an ounce of guilt— note for example the Middle Eastern specialty of crying and whining in song and to Western reporters. Also, do the rest of us Jews a favor, keep us the hell out of your rants— bringing the “as a Jew…” confessional tripe into the conversation only debases and distorts something you obviously know very little about.
davichon
May 3rd, 2022 at 15:10
have not looked here in years. Only thing to note re:Ariel. Fact-free name-callings (e.g. “neo-Nazi Islamists”), condescension (not even naievete, but “complete and utter naievete”… “you are a silly victim”) in short a rant denouncing my “rant”. And of course the proprietary view of Jews as the “us” vs. (especially) Jews whose thinking triggers them.