Best American Poetry- The New York School Diaspora (Part Thirty-Six): Clarence Major [by Angela Ball]Photograph of a Gathering of People Waving --based on an old photograph bought in a shop at Half Moon Bay, summer, 1999 No sound, the whole thing. Unknown folk. People waving from a hillside of ripple grass to people below in an ongoing meadow. Side rows of trees waving in a tide of wind, and […]
- REBEL, Jean-Féry (1666-1747) [by Lewis Saul]Les Élémens 1. Le Chaos listen: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester Thomas Zehetmair, cond. Baroque music is pleasing to the ear. Bach was the master of delicious polyphony and beautiful part-writing. Handel, Telemann and Vivaldi are crisp and to the point. Rameau and Scarlatti wrote some of the greatest, technically difficult, and exciting keyboard works of all tim […]
- Grace Cavalieri's Milestone Birthday [Terence Winch]Happy 90th birthday to the extraordinary & indefatigable Grace Cavalieri, an inspiration to all who know her. Poet, playwright, painter, and long-time host of “The Poet and the Poem” interview program from the Library of Congress, Grace deserves all the love she asks for. _________________________________________________________________________________ […]
- Jack Skelley: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]Jack Skelley, photo by Gary Leonard ______________________________________________________ Green Goddess Who made the salad Whose tangy vinegar made me wince Who played pouty Venus to my impudent Caesar Who taught me to renounce meat Who flowed forth lubricants Who performed dark sacraments Whose tart shrub tangled my tong […]
- The New York School Diaspora (Part Thirty-Six): Clarence Major [by Angela Ball]
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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Praise for Steampunk
Though the genre has been around for a while, evident in shows like “The Wild, Wild, West”, in novels by William Gibson, and even in the latest incarnation of Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr., steampunk has really come into … Continue reading
Posted in Recommended Reading
Tagged fantasy, fiction, mark hodder, new fiction, steampunk
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Wonderful Interview in The Writer’s Chronicle
A friend and wonderful poet, Judith Harris, has a must-read interview with Ted Kooser in the latest issue of The Writer’s Chronicle. One quote of Mr. Kooser’s that hits home with me, and many other writers and poets, is as … Continue reading
Posted in Prose and Poetry
Tagged judith harris, poetry, ted kooser, the writer's chronicle
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Chapter Seven
No, this is not a bankruptcy alert! I am well into chapter seven of the fantasy/adventure novel I have been writing. The characters are now well developed and sub plots are weaving together. My two main characters are beginning to … Continue reading
The Knife of Never Letting Go
I am nearly finished reading Patrick Ness’s first novel in his Chaos Walking series. It is extremely well thought out with a strong, unique voice. I highly recommend it for anyone looking for a good YA read. It’s dystopian, but … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction for Young Readers
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Murmurs and Musings 