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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Poor Eddie
An introduction for children on the perils of the writing life. On a bitterly cold January 19 in 1809, little Edgar Poe was born into a new and troubling world. His parents were poor stage actors. When Edgar turned … Continue reading
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Murmurs and Musings 