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From the Archive: Fear and Beauty in July by Emma Trelles
South Florida is the coolest part of the country right now, which is kind of spooky but not so much that I won't take that news as a bizarro blessing. Outside the rain is delicate…
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Ron Padgett / Poetry Forum / Wednesday November 7, 2012 at 6:30 PM
The celebrated poet Ron Padgett — a mainstay of the "soi-disant Tulsa School of poetry" and a main source of inspiration for aspiring poets since he burst on the New York scene in the…
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Walter LaFeber on the Chicago Cubs
<<<< Anyone can have a bad century. — Walter LaFeber >>> The eminent historian Walter LaFeber — author of The American Age: U. S. Foreign Policy At Home and Abroad, from 1750 to the…
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Happy birthday, Glen Hartley (with regards from Thornton Wilder)
<<< We’re all People, before we’re anything else. People, even before we’re artists. The role of being a Person is sufficient to have lived and died for. — Thornton Wilder >>>
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On Virtuosity and Simplicity, by Luke Hankins
When I was young, it seemed logical to me that the most virtuosic performances should be the “best” music, and most…
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Sandy’s Wake (& Celtic New Year): A report from Lally’s Alley
Our friend Michael Lally, who describes himself as "just another ex-jazz-musician/proto-rapper/Jersey-Irish-poet-actor/print-junkie/film-raptor/beat-hipster-"white Negro"-rhapsodizer/ex-hippie-punk-'60s-radical-organizer's take on all things cultural, political, spiritual & aggrandizing," put up this post about the aftermath of Sandy: Sandy is still wreaking…
