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  • A tip of the fedora to . . .Maxine Sullivan

    May 15, 2011

    A tip of the fedora to Maxine Sullivan (1911-1987), the wonderful jazz singer, on the 100th anniversarty of her birth on Friday, May 13. . . .and to tireless Phil Schaap of WKCR-FM, a…

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  • Molly’s coming! [by Molly Arden]

    May 15, 2011

    House Guest The sad seamstress who stays with us this month is small and thin and bitter. No one can cheer her up. Giver her a dress, a drink, roast chicken, or fried fish…

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  • Save the Date and Spread the Word! Thursday, June 16, 6:30 PM.

    May 15, 2011

    The Inspired Word presents the first of what will be a regular SPECIAL EVENT of its weekly Thursday night series: Big Apple BAP: NYC's Best American Poetry Poets. Thursday, June 16One and One Bar…

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  • Molly Arden, Guest Blogger May 15-21

    May 15, 2011

    This week we welcome Molly Arden as our guest author.  Molly enjoys writing poems while walking. She has led a peripatetic life — at various times she has lived in each of the New…

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  • Depressing quote of the day

    May 14, 2011

    Life is basically a rusty hubcap lying in a ditch on the side of the road, and life goes on. Stephen King "Herman Wouk is Still Alive" (the Atlantic, May 2011)   — sdh

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  • Assignment 5 — Shannon Holman

    May 14, 2011

    God's dice always have a lucky roll. ~Sophocles, Fragments l, 763 To round out the week, let's play some dice.  Your assignment is to fold several paper cubes (here's a pdf template, and here's…

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