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Wordsmith’s A.Word.A.Day: The Cento
The Cento PRONUNCIATION: (SEN-to) MEANING: noun: A literary work, especially a poem, composed of parts taken from works of other authors. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin cento (patchwork). Earliest documented use: 1605. NOTES: Nobel-prize-winning poet T.S.…
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Squibs 514-531 [by Alan Ziegler]
514: Song lyricist was my dream career: Fill a dozen or so pages with drafts, send them off to my dependent collaborator (with a sweet voice, ear for melody, and recording contract), and live…
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Squibs 514-531 [by Alan Ziegler]
514: Song lyricist was my dream career: Fill a dozen or so pages with drafts, send them off to my dependent collaborator (with a sweet voice, ear for melody, and recording contract), and live…
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Something like opera on a rocket ship: creating for space that talks back [By Tracy Danison]
Luara Raio’s “Apocalypso”, featuring Acauã El Bandide Sereia. Photo © Rachel Pimentel A couple of years back I wrote about the challenge of art performance – Deploying original intentions and creative potential – at…
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Something like opera on a rocket ship: creating for space that talks back [By Tracy Danison]
Luara Raio’s “Apocalypso”, featuring Acauã El Bandide Sereia. Photo © Rachel Pimentel A couple of years back I wrote about the challenge of art performance – Deploying original intentions and creative potential – at…
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Let Us Now Praise People We Want to Have Sex With [by Janice Erlbaum]
The praise poem was all the rage in certain circles in 1993. Kathy from Pussy Poets started it; she wrote a praise poem for Bobby Miller, and one for me, called “Mary Jane Girl.”…
