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Hello, Dalian
Stacey and I are in Dalian on the NE coast of China. Drank too much "by-jo" (sounds like "by Jove," made from sorghum and other grains, tastes sort of like grappa) last evening after…
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Listening to “The Man from Laramie” (by Elizabeth Samet)
The first thing you have to know is that the opinions I express as a guest blogger this week on the Best American Poetry site are my own and do not reflect those of…
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Doggerel?…Excellent! (by Jenny Factor)
Have you ever heard of William McGonagall, a famous Scottish poet of the 19th Century?* Poor Will had a wicked reputation for writing about Public Tragedy with so much pathos that his listeners would…
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Military personnel “lewdly shaking their behinds” (by Mitch Sisskind
Bush is the only US President to wear a military uniform while in office, including Washington, Grant, and Eisenhower. Here he has changed out of his uni for his famous "Mission Accomplished" speech on…
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Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822 Music, when soft voices die,Vibrates in the memory—Odours, when sweet violets sicken,Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,Are heaped for the beloved’s bed;And so…
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Film Still Series #58
From the forthcoming film by Bill Hayward, Asphalt, Muscle and Bone, about a man at risk, the persistence of imagination and the impossibility of love. Produced by Bill Hayward and Anna Elman.
