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: September 2014
Changes
The changes come slowly. Sometimes painfully. I can feel so old…so tired. The price of wisdom, the price of anchorage in a world that hurls itself around me. My dreams spring new then fall around me in a perennial cycle. … Continue reading
Interview with Royal Oak Bookshop Owner Kevin Seabrook
Royal Oak Transcript — From an interview with Kevin Seabrook on Sunday, September 7, 2014. If you are in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and love books, you must visit this venerable shop. It has a wide selection and a … Continue reading
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Honoring the Bookstore
In a few days, I will begin sharing interviews, pics, and videos of used bookstores and their proprietor(s). Many of us who love books and reading have a certain bookstore that inspired us at some point in our lives. Younger … Continue reading
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Murmurs and Musings 